Fishing Bans May Save Corals from Killer Starfish [News]
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 17:35
in Earth & Climate
Good news for the world's vanishing corals: a new study shows that commercial fishing bans in Australia's Great Barrier Reef kept a lid on coral-gobbling starfish."This is definitely good news for coral," says John Bruno, an associate professor of marine science at the University of North Carolina (U.N.C.) at Chapel Hill. [More]