Protect Fish Habitat

Fish, like all animals, need sufficient places to find shelter and food, grow, and reproduce. Healthy marine habitats ensure a sustainable supply of fish for commercial and recreational fisheries. But these essential places— including deep-sea corals, kelp forests, and seamounts—are under threat.

Read stories about safeguarding key areas from damaging activities—pollution, dredging, and fishing on spawning species—to boost fish populations and help ensure healthy oceans.

• Revealing the Secrets of Devil’s Hole
  South Atlantic

• Innovations Transform How Scientists Identify Important Ocean Habitats
  All Regions

• Protecting Special Sites Where Fish Breed
  Caribbean

• Holding On To the Trifecta Seafood Experience
  Caribbean

• A Lifetime’s Experience Brings a Vision for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Fishing
  Pacific

• Pacific Groundfish Boom and Bust Highlight the Need to Proceed with Caution
  Pacific

• We Must Do More to Save Deep-Sea Corals
  Mid Atlantic l New England

• For This Fish, a Hole Is Home for the Holidays
  Gulf of Mexico

• For Ocean Fish, What Happens Upstream Doesn’t Stay There
  All Regions

• Past the Whales, Over the Corals, and Through the Canyons
  Gulf of Mexico

• What’s Love Got to Do With Green Sea Turtles and Fish?
  Gulf of Mexico l South Atlantic l Caribbean

• Corals That Brighten Gulf of Mexico Depths Need Greater Protection
  Gulf of Mexico

• How a Monster Grouper Prompted a Fisherman to Do Big Things for the Ocean
  South Atlantic

• Seagrass Provides Lifeline for Fish and Coastal Economies
  Mid Atlantic

• 5 Keys to Improving Ocean Health
  All Regions