I studied what happens to reef fish after coral bleaching. What I saw still makes me nauseous
- Written by Jodie L. Rummer, Associate Professor & Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
Victor Huertas, Author provided
The Great Barrier Reef is suffering its third mass bleaching event in five years. It follows the record-breaking mass bleaching event in 2016 that killed a third of Great Barrier Reef corals, immediately followed by another in 2017.
While we don’t know if fish populations declined from the 2016 bleaching...