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Coral spawning lab presented as way to boost reef genetic diversity and thermal tolerance near Norwich
Summary
A presenter described limits of current coral cloning efforts and said a coral spawning laboratory could restore genetic diversity and help breed corals with greater thermal tolerance; funding, timeline and next steps were not specified.
A staff member described coral breeding through a spawning laboratory as a tool to increase genetic diversity and thermal tolerance in corals near Norwich, saying current restoration methods rely on cloning and underwater nurseries.
The speaker said coral restoration today often uses fragments grown in underwater nurseries and replanted on reefs, but that approach limits genetic diversity. "So there's not a lot of genetic diversity in this," the staff member said, adding that a spawning lab would enable reproduction-based approaches that restore natural genetic variety.
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