An international team of researchers has found a clever way to draw fish to dying coral reefs — a discovery that could help restore the vulnerable ecosystems. For 40 nights, they played the ...

Acoustic enrichment can enhance fish community development on degraded coral reef habitat. Nature Communications , 10 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13186-2 Credits ...

Recordings of coral reef sounds attract fish Recordings of coral reef sounds attract fish Pied Pipers of the Reef Tina Butler, mongabay.com May 24, 2005 According to an international team of ...

Researchers have theorized that reefs draw sustenance from currents that bring in ... the roughly 2,800 species of so-called cryptobenthic fish make up almost half of all coral reef fish ...

“Healthy coral reefs are remarkably noisy places — the crackle of snapping shrimp and the whoops and grunts of fish combine to form a dazzling biological soundscape,” said Steve Simpson, a ...

On the whole, only about 8.4% of the ocean is covered by MPAs, according to the World Database on Protected Areas.And research drawing on a 2021 study in Science called The MPA Guide reveals that ...

And if coral reef fish are able to find the smell of coral in the ocean, they follow that home like a yellow brick road.” Unfortunately, it also works the other way around. Fish are lured by the ...

Ask someone to draw a coral and they might draw a lump or a deer-antler shape, maybe with some fish or shells to illustrate its sea-floor setting.

Researchers say man-made reefs attract more baitfish than natural reefs and draw in huge numbers of predators ideal for recreational anglers. Artificial reefs are helping to boost fish populations ...

Since 1997, the Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association (MBARA) has made it a mission to place artificial reefs offshore Bay and Gulf counties. A $178,000 project was just finished. Fifty-seven ...