Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Travel distances of juvenile fish key to better conservation

05/24/2017 01:58 PM EDT

a juvenile clownfish

Marine reserves--sections of the ocean where fishing is prohibited--promote coral reef sustainability by preventing overfishing and increasing fish abundance and diversity. But to be effective, they need to be sized right, and in a way that accounts for how far juvenile fish travel away from their parents after spawning.


Full story at http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/larval-dispersal-at-coral-reefs

Source
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


This is an NSF News From the Field item.


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