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WHERE HAVE ALL THE FISHES GONE? Photo of Pag-asa Island cays shows its ‘degraded state’ with low coral and fish diversity and abundance.A marine biologist on Saturday revealed Pag-asa Island cays, which are low islands or reefs, have been observed in a “degraded state” due to suspected island-building activities in the West Philippine Sea.
Anticamara also mentioned three cays having sand and rubble piles “atypical of naturally formed coral or sandy barrier islands, indicating that these are possibly product of island-building activities.”
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