Each year humans trade 20 to 30 million tropical marine fish for aquariums, representing more than 1,800 different species. The United States is the world’s largest consumer, buying up to 80% of the ...

Walk into any pet or aquarium store, and you’re going to find clownfish. That orange-and-white-striped Nemo is practically synonymous with saltwater aquariums, and it’s one of the first fish new ...

HATFIELD TWP. >> Walking into Reef to Rift Aquarium Store for the first time, you might be surprised by how bright the store is. The space is open, so there are no separate rooms separating the fish ...

A world where life flutters, shimmers and gently sways, like the forest scenes from the original “Avatar” movie, a kaleidoscope of colors that shouldn’t exist in nature. Corals in pink, purple, peach, ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The state is proposing to permit commercial collection of Hawaii's reef fish for aquariums. For decades, beautiful reef fish have been at the center of an ugly fight over ...

Rene Umberger has been fighting to shut down Hawaii’s commercial aquarium industry for years. As a former dive instructor, she’s seen with her own eyes the impacts the trade has had on near-shore ...

Even if you’ve never owned a saltwater aquarium, it’s likely you’ve come across one before—perhaps at a restaurant or in your friend’s living room—with corals aglow and flamboyant fish flitting around ...

Scientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean coral: For the first time, marine biologists have successfully reproduced elkhorn coral, a critical species, ...

An exhibit on coral reefs and how global climate change threatens them will be the focus of the Aquarium of the Pacific this summer — as it was supposed to be last year. “Coral Reefs: Nature’s ...