The yellow tang (top) and Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (bottom) are among Hawaii’s diverse families of reef fish, many of which have connections to Hawaii’s culture and past. — Maui Ocean Center ...

HONOLULU— The state of Hawaii’s Environmental Council has upheld the Board of Land and Natural Resources’ decision to maintain the ban on collecting fish for the aquarium pet trade off the west coast ...

Its Hawaiian name is lauwiliwili nukunuku ‘oi ... stations to remove crustacean parasites from their fellow reef fish. Another difference between the two species is their main habitat.

Dr. Jan Vicente, of Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and lead author of the Zootaxia article in which four new ...

Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to ... The release of these iconic coral reef fish into our nearshore waters ...

I was scuba diving at Makua (Tunnels Reef) in Kauai in 2010 shooting video of marine life and corals and enjoying a beautiful North Shore day. When I got done with my dive I came out of the water ...

Research published in 2010 – the first on Bikini’s reef in decades – indicated that about 70% of coral species at Bikini atoll repopulated the reef in the decades following the 23 nuclear tests ...

Approximately one-fourth of the plants, fish and invertebrates found in Hawaiian coral reefs are endemic to Hawai‘i. Coral reefs are intrinsic to Hawaiian culture and fundamental to the fabric of ...

The researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi, the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and The University of Manchester, identified how coral reef fish living in the Arabian Gulf - the warmest waters on earth - ...

These findings contribute to a broadening understanding of sponge biodiversity within the Hawaiian archipelago and throughout Oceania. "We used autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS ...