Around 1980 the area around Amed had an astonishing underwater panorama combined with traditional salt fields on the beach. In the late 80's the fishing net was introduced as an “innovative” and more efficient fishing method that should have an immense impact for the Amed area until these days. The only problem was that the beautiful corals bothered the fishermen because their nets got stuck in the corals and were damaged. As the fishermen were quite enthusiastic about this new, more efficient fishing method and were also in need of building materials for their housings they discovered that the corals served as a perfect substitute for cement that hadn't arrived in Amed at that time. They started to dismantle the reef in a process that continued for several years until all corals in front of Amed village were destroyed, used for buildings on land and had therefore vanished from the sea. Quite a few beautiful coral fields can still be found along the coastline around Amed (for example in the Jemeluk area) and seeing this you can only imagine, how it may have looked here some 20 years ago before people started this destructive process for the reefs.