
Scientists Hope Coral Grown On 'farms' Will Restore Reefs
April 16, 2007 @ 11:12 AM (EST)
Source: Ocala.com
The scientists have nursed dozens of tiny coral fragments in a lab in Ruskin and transported them to Western Sambo Reef in the Keys. It's all part of a complicated experiment to find a new way to save Florida's vast coral reefs, which lately have been dying from everything from shipwrecks to pollution to climate change. The idea is to grow coral in labs, kind of like fish farms, so they can be returned to their natural settings in Florida's struggling coral reefs...
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