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Benefits of Coral Reefs
In the economic context, coral reefs provide a number of benefits that can be grouped into two categories:

• Benefits of sustainable
 Fisheries offshore
 Fisheries coral
 Protection of beaches and small islands
 Marine Tourism
 Marinkultur
 Biotechnology
 Trade biota ornamental
 Areas of protection
 coral sand mining
 Crafts souvenirs
 Research and education

• Benefits that are not sustainable
 extractive activity
 Fishing with destructive methods
 Collection of reef organisms
 The illegal trade ornamental biota
 Development of coastal

The benefits of sustainable coral reef
• Fishing offshore

A variety of pelagic fish resources (eg, Scombridae, Exocoetidae, Carangidae, Charcharinidae) depend on coral reef ecosystems, either as the location of spawning, rearing children, and eating.
• Fisheries coral

groups of reef fish resources that are important to fishermen:

1. Fish, eg: Muraenidae, Serranidae, Holocentridae, Lutjanidae, etc..
2. Invertebrates, eg Gastropoda, Bivalva, crustaceans, Chepalopoda, Echinodermata, Coelenterata
3. Reptiles, eg, sea snakes and turtles
4. Makrofita, eg algae and seagrasses

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• Function of Coral Reefs
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