Other than climate change, trawling, dynamite fishing, and diving tourism also have large influence on the health of coral reefs.

Fishermen are constantly practising dangerous methods such as blast fishing and dynamite fishing.

The corals around the island were mostly destroyed by rampant use of dynamite fishing and cyanide method employed by foreign fishing boats in the past.

Illegal fishing methods such as dynamite fishing and poisoning have also depleted marine ecosystems.

The hunters become the prey when illegal dynamite fishing prematurely ends the hibernation of a mythological carnivorous lizard-man known as Akua which lives in the lake.

The most common accidental threat is the entanglement in fishing equipment with the most harmful methods being drift netting, shrimp trawling, long-lining, and dynamite fishing.

Once common, it is now much less abundant due to shell collecting and the destruction of its habitat by such processes as dynamite fishing, especially in shallower areas.

Coral reefs were all but destroyed by dynamite fishing, although efforts are made to restore some, especially inside the Hundred Islands National Park.

Blast fishing or dynamite fishing is the practice of using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.

Illegal fishing is another major threat, with fishing methods such as dynamite fishing and poisoning depleting marine ecosystems.