Like the reported coliform contamination of Boracay waters, the reported presence of coral eating starfishes in the island's seas is a phenomenon which shortly existed last year and already long gone. This Aklan governor Florencio T. Miraflores said in reaction to a published article in PhilipppineDaily Inquirer late last week about this particular environmental problem in Boracay.

Badiola, O. S. (1999, September 7). Boracay's coral-eating starfish a dead issue. Panay News, pp. 2, 6.