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CRF in the News. Articles and news releases featuring CRF' restoration projects.

Offshore nurseries cultivate rare corals to rescue depleted reefs

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:57 | Written by Sun-Sentinel - Carey C. Wagner and David Fleshler |

Chance discovery off Key Largo leads to ocean farms for fragile, but enormously important, species.

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Volunteers grow coral to restore reefs

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:51 | Written by Sun-Sentinel - Carey Wagner |

Sun-Sentinel's CRF Nursery photo story

Scientists try to help aid restoration of coral reef

Monday, 09 August 2010 02:58 | Written by Keynoter Publishing Company Inc. by Gary Phillips |

KeyNotesArticle_LaurieMacLaughlin With the apparently successful capping of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Keys’ living coral reefs may be spared any ill effects of the disaster, but marine scientists say there are still plenty of reasons to be concerned over the health of the reef system.

Colder than normal water temperatures this past winter followed by higher temperatures this summer are causing corals to die at an unprecedented rate, experts report. Then there is always the human factors of ship and boat groundings, diver impact and the effects of nearshore construction and pollution. But Lauri MacLaughlin, research manager for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, said great strides have been made in harvesting live corals from a healthy area and replanting them elsewhere.

Laurie MacLaughlin works
in the coral nursery in the
Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary in the Lower Keys

Florida Keys coral grower's pioneering work aids reef restoration

Monday, 10 May 2010 02:30 | Written by The Miami Herald - Cammy Cark May 10, 2010 |

A large project to restore endangered corals to reefs along Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands was made possible by stimulus funds and the work of a Tavernier marine-life collector.

Amory News Release

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:14 | Written by Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort |

Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort had some very special visitors last Friday, April 23, 2010 aboard the Amoray Diver. Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), dove in the Florida National Marine Sanctuary to inspect Ken Nedimyer's Coral Reef Restoration Project. The Coral Reef Restoration Project is partially funded by federal stimulus money in order to recover corals and transplant them in local nurseries. Dr. Lubchenco explained the importance of this project when she stated, "Coral reefs are vital to Florida's economic development and by recovering these corals, it's an investment in the future." Blessed by the clear water and flat seas that the Florida Keys are known for, the divers explored Ken Nedimyer's coral nursery as well as the Molasses Reef restoration site, where previously transplanted staghorn corals are reproducing and thriving.

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