Allowing coral reef fish to rebound is emerging as one of the clearest ways to put more healthy protein on the plates of coastal families without stripping the ocean bare. New science suggests that if ...

Overfishing and global warming are depleting food from our oceans, but rebuilding reef life could help provide millions of ...

A federal fishery management council once again has moved forward with a plan that would allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor and rare deep-water coral reef ...

Officials hope to duplicate a Florida sanctuary's success with "no-take zones." Environmentalists want more. The federal government hopes to revive America's dying coral reefs, mainly by banning ...

New research has found that the protection of coral reefs has boosted the amount of fish they harbor by around 10%. The study used survey data from about 2,600 reefs with varying levels of protection ...

Florida is one of the only states to have coral reefs around the coast. Besides being beautiful and interesting, these reefs serve an important purpose. The reefs provide a home for many fish and ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

BILOXI, Miss. -- When the former menhaden fishing vessel the Great Wicomico settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico last month 13 miles south of Horn Island, it became part of an effort to rebuild ...

Professor Nagelkerken's latest research, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, looks at the intrinsic and learned survival behavior of two types of tropical ...