If any fish is emblematic of this life cycle—kindergarten in the mangroves, graduate school on the reef—it is the rainbow parrotfish. The scientific name for this species is perfect ...

Reef fish, too, respond to warmer waters—sometimes ... that nibbles back strands of sargassum. And a school of parrotfish—fused teeth like wire cutters—chip away noisily at the rocks ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery catch.

The research, led by Professor Michael Bode from the QUT School of Mathematical ... also known as the coral trout—the reef's most valuable commercial fish. "Marine reserves make up less than ...