What's killing the reefs and diminishing our fish?

[Ino]

I have sea kayaked this area extensively for over 30 years and IMO there is a direct cause for the corals dying. With all of the development North of Kona the grading has allowed large amounts of sediment to smother the coral colonies. It's been very observable and those little berms to catch the sediments have been easily overrun when heavy storms come;
https://peerj.com/articles/300/

Did you know that the Big Island has the most live corals of all the islands?
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008...coral.html

Good science here;
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3049/

Currently in the Hawaiian Islands there is no bleaching stress;
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite.../index.php