The aquarium trade is largely unregulated and untracked, and collection often involves practices like cyanide poisoning that hurt the entire coral reef ... these fish are especially vulnerable to ...

Maahid Photos via Unsplash Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone ... become lighter toward the fish’s stomach, and there is more yellow around the fish’s mouth.

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where protected fish grow larger and produce far more offspring. The research ...

Another species, the Goniopora, became infected by black band disease ... the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species ...