The discovery confirms that poop from coral-eating fish is an important environmental source of symbiotic dinoflagellate algae on coral reefs. Correa said coral-eating predators are typically ...

The prey fish, in turn, are eaten by many species ... is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals because of a unique adaptation: a wax-digesting enzyme system. Populations of the starfish ...

We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — fish whose activities sustain entire reef ecosystems — as well as to obtain a proposed recovery ...

And what they do is, they can devastate coral reefs because they eat coral. And our concern ... kind of home to loads of animals and loads of fish and these starfish are very, very good at ...

We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — fish whose activities sustain entire reef ecosystems — as well as to obtain a proposed recovery ...

The parrot fish are an integral part of the coral reef ecosystem because they eat the excess algae, which allows the coral to survive. The result was that algae growth soon overtook the coral and ...

THE Johor Fisheries Department has removed 112 coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) in the Sultan Iskandar Marine Park as part of marine life protection efforts in the area. Its director ...

Marine biologists have long warned about the high population density of coral-eating spiny starfish on the Great Barrier Reef. Crown-of-thorns starfish populations are again thriving along the ...