Publications

Nicole Fraser, Brian R. Crawford and Janny Kusen, 2000, Best Practices Guide for Crown-of-Thorns Clean-Ups (.pdf, 816kb), Coastal Resources Center, Coastal Management Report #2225, Indonesia

UNEP World Resources, 2004, Calling All Divers to a New Conservation Cause, including fifty key facts about seas and oceans (.pdf, 228kb)

UNEP World Resources, 2005, Village by Village (.pdf, 708kb)—Recovering Fiji’s Coastal Fisheries, Ch 5, available at: http://multimedia.wri.org/wr2005/045.htm

Related Articles

• Endangered Species Overview
• Common Reef Creatures—Reef Fish Continued
• Common Reef Creatures—Reef Fish
• Common Reef Creatures—Hard Corals
• Common Reef Creatures—Invertebrates

Fact of the Day

As many as 100 million sharks are killed each year for their meat and fins, which are used for shark fin soup. Hunters typically catch the sharks, de-fin them while alive and throw them back into the ocean where they either drown or bleed to death.

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