With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

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Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

To replenish adult spawners, marine protected areas need strong enforcement and climate-friendly design Kristen Goodhue Bluestriped grunts and gray snapper, two fish species vital to the local economy ...

Age matters when determining how to protect life in the ocean; every population needs a strong cohort of adults to produce the next generation. But many marine protected areas (MPAs) are falling short ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

A recent study reveals that the presence of invasive rats on islands can lead to behavioral changes in fish living on coral reefs offshore. A team of scientists found that damselfish have larger ...

A cleaner goby cleans a grouper in a Caribbean coral reef. These little fish clean much bigger fish of parasites and bacteria. Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment?

Marine Biologist Aran Mooney has proposed a possible solution to all of the ongoing issues with coral reefs: fish music. Working with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts, ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

An international team of researchers studied the behavioral changes among butterflyfish on a series of reefs in the Indo-Pacific before and after the 2016 global mass coral bleaching event. They found ...