30 Mar 2010

Full moon set to spark mass spawning


ONE of the state's most remarkable natural attractions - the mass spawning of coral off the WA coast - is set to be sparked by tonight's full moon.
Each year, the March full moon stimulates coral polyps into releasing a huge swathe of egg and sperm to reproduce.

As the sea turns pink with the seed of coral at tropical reefs along the coast, whale sharks have also began arriving at Ningaloo Marine Park in the North-West.
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