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But those beautiful fish inhabiting the aquarium in your dentist’s office or cousin’s home are taken directly from tropical coral reefs. And if you found yourself rooting for Nemo, brace yourself.
Although there is wide consensus that coral reef habitats are in crisis worldwide, how much damage is inflicted by the aquarium trade is a source of debate even among marine biologists.
Coral Reefs Shouldn’t Look Like Finding Nemo Scientists have devised an ingenious new method to figure out which of these habitats are most worth saving. By Ed Yong Gray reef shark (Neil ...
Breeding Aquarium Fish Can Help Save Reefs People are still figuring out how to breed many species in captivity, but new advances could help halt reef destruction and protect vulnerable wild fish.
The trade in marine fish for home aquariums is a major cause of coral reef fish decline, and in the years since Finding Nemo was released, clownfish populations on coral reefs have been declining ...
Could ‘Finding Dory’ hurt the world’s reefs? Many fear there'll be high demand for blue tangs, which are caught in tropical waters.
As the service manager at the Aquarium Professionals Group in Evanston, Pineda oversees the installation and maintenance of custom-built aquariums–residential and commercial.
The coral reef displayed in "Finding Nemo" is based on the real-life Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Sadly, coral reefs across the world are suffering and dying because of climate change and ...
James Smith-Williams, 4, looks over a corral selection at Corals-n-Reefs while brother Iyan looks on. The two helped their father John shop for supplies for their salt-water home aquarium.
The Ashmore Reef, likewise, has a cornucopia of thriving aquatic organisms. Ones so varied and colorful that this highlight reel of the reef feels like a scene out of Finding Nemo.
Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...