Table 1. The twelve first phase management actions and two actions (in italics) that could not be addressed during the first phase because no reef resilience assessment had been completed.
Action number | Action |
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1 | Plant cover crops in Guánica Valley farms |
2 | Plant riparian buffers along the Rio Loco where it passes through farms |
3 | Replace sun-grown coffee with shade-grown coffee |
4 | Hydroseed bare soils associated with roads and homes |
5 | Construct swales to treat urban stormwater (as a type of green infrastructure) |
6 | Restore Guánica Lagoon |
7 | Use water diversion structures and flow reduction practices (e.g., water bars, vetiver and rock check dams, culverts) to manage sediment from existing dirt hills and mountain roads |
8 | Construct wetlands for tertiary treatment at the Guánica WWTP |
9 | Protect seagrass meadows |
10 | Protect mangrove forests |
11 | Capture larval fish of target species and establish reef fish aquarium-based nurseries |
12 | Collect corals and establish aquarium-based coral nurseries |
13 | Release nursery-raised fish (from action 11) on reefs |
14 | Outplant nursery-raised corals on reefs (from action 12) around Gilligan’s Island to protect the coastline |
Once the resilience assessment was available, it was possible to address action 14 along with action 12 in the second phase because they were so closely related to each other. Actions 7, 12, and 14 were covered during the second phase. Action 13 was not addressed in either the first or second phases.