Gold coral, details:
Gold coral from the Hawaiian Islands is prized in jewellery. The jewellery trade in fact added to scientists’ knowledge of the corals’ characteristics, as when large colonies were collected for jewellery making, they discovered that bamboo corals are a common host for gold coral colonies.
The jewellery made from Gold corals are highly valuable. However, unprocessed skeleton materials are no longer commercially harvested in Hawaii, making them also extremely rare. There is in place a moratorium on gold coral harvest around the U.S. Pacific Islands, which was recently extended to 2028. Because the coral is slow-growing, and more research is required on its ecological role and status, this extension prevents overfishing and destruction of the ecosystem before more is known about it. International trade therefore primarily consists of jewellery made from pre-moratorium stock, which may be decades old.
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