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Extinction predictor ‘will help protect coral reefs’
More than a third of coral reef fish species are in jeopardy of local extinction from the impacts of climate change on coral reefs, a new scientific study has found.
(Local extinction refers to the loss of species from individual locations, while …
Smithsonian scientists discover 7 new species of fish
Things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish — something scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Ocean Science Foundation are finding out. Using modern genetic analysis, combined with traditional examination of morphology,…
Effects of El Nino land South Pacific reef fish in hot water
Unseasonal warm temperatures caused by El Niño have a profound effect on the fish populations of coral reefs in the South Pacific, scientists have found. An international team of biologists studied the arrival of young fish to the atoll of Ran…
Even ‘non-destructive’ fishing can threaten coral reef fish
Catching coral reef fish for the aquarium trade used to mean using cyanide or even dynamite, which destroyed much of the reef ecosystem. Today the trend is to use non-destructive methods such as hand-net fishing, and fish importers argue that this means coral reef fish can be harvested continuously ? but new research suggests otherwise.