New science shows that overfishing is eroding the sustainability of tropical coral reef fisheries in East Africa, with ...

Coral reefs protect coastlines from strong currents, waves and tropical storms, and reef fish feed local populations with a valuable source of protein. There are many threats to the biodiversity ...

(CNN)-- It's not just the number of people fishing, but the level of poverty in a local community that leads to overfishing of coral ... reef ecosystem is an additional factor that can determine ...

Listening to a coral reef is like listening to an orchestra of biological sound – fish produce popping, whooping and trumpeting sounds to warn each other of predators, to call each other when ...

"By protecting fish populations within these no-take ... Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef ...

With much of the fishery overlapping with the ecologically significant Coral Triangle area, WWF expects to be significantly involved with ... It is home to 3,000 species of reef fish and ...

The Coral Triangle has more coral reef fish diversity than anywhere else in the world: 37% (2,228) of the world’s coral reef fish species (6,000), and 56% of the coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific ...

What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), examines the correlation ...

The only way these women can catch fish to feed their families is to walk all over the coral reef. CHILD: I thought it was just like sand and rock underneath. There’s loads of broken like bits ...

Read about different competitive relationships on the reef. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops ... and distance of a school of prey fish, and even sizes of individual fish in the school.

More information: Zoe T. Richards et al, Deoxygenation following coral spawning and low-level thermal stress trigger mass coral mortality at Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef, Coral Reefs (2024). DOI: 10. ...