Each year humans trade 20 to 30 million tropical marine fish for aquariums, representing more than 1,800 different species. The United States is the world’s largest consumer, buying up to 80% of the ...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

For decades commercial aquarium collectors in Hawaii routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of endemic and indigenous Hawaiian reef fish and invertebrates a year, packaging the live fish in plastic ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...

An Oahu man faces federal charges after he allegedly ran an illegal aquarium fish smuggling operation with non-native, endangered species and protected Hawaii reef fish for sale starting at $300 each.

Tropical rainforests and coral reefs are both ... but one’s imagination can see their aquatic equivalents: schools of colorful reef fish, coral colonies with parrotfish grazing on algae, bird ...