Florida's Coral Reefs Face A Sea Of Threats

Walter C. Jaap, a St. Petersburg marine ecologist, vividly recalls the reefs off the Florida Keys he saw during research dives in the 1970s: Thousands of chocolate brown and golden corals teeming with fish. Snapper, goatfish and grunts darting into thickets of the darker colored elkhorn coral to escape predators like barracudas. Other fish finding refuge by swimming into the golden staghorns...