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KOTA KINABALU: A concerted clean-up is underway in Darvel Bay, off Sabah’s east coast in Lahad Datu district, after a major outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) was detected.

Marine conservationists and government agencies are hard at work containing hundreds of those coral predators, which are threatening to destroy the coral reefs in the area.

RCM programme manager Nadhirah Mohd Rifai, a member of the outbreak response team, shared her experience handling COTS outbreaks over the years in Sabah. If the COTS had been feeding for months unattended, Nadhirah said, most of the corals would have been dead. “Due to overfishing, there are also fewer natural predators like the Giant Triton Snail and the Titan Triggerfish to keep the number of COTS in check naturally,” she said.

 

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