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]

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