buying up to 80% of the tropical fish on the global market. The aquarium trade is largely unregulated and untracked, and collection often involves practices like cyanide poisoning that hurt the entire ...

"Reef fish are important to a range of ecosystem processes, such as controlling seaweed so it doesn't overgrow and take over areas of the seabed, to producing the sand we sunbathe on in tropical ...

The Tropical Reef Aquarium at the Point Defiance Zoo ... and they will be able to identify various fish species through the aquarium’s new digital screens. All viewing areas were polished ...

The board had concluded that the EIS failed to paint a true picture of the environmental harms of commercial aquarium collection. Board members had noted a troubling lack of information about the ...

The wildlife documentary series narrated by David Attenborough reveals the ingenious ways life exists in the undersea cities of tropical ... a reef octopus, to flush small fish out of their ...

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 ...

Shane Takasane faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling aquarium fish such as the Hawaii yellow tang, seen above in a snorkeling lagoon at Aulani Resort’s Rainbow Reef. “The illegal trade ...