NOAA Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries Service is dedicated to the stewardship of living marine resources through science-based conservation and management, and the promotion of healthy ecosystems.
As a steward, NOAA Fisheries Service conserves, protects, and manages living marine resources in a way that ensures their continuation as functioning components of marine ecosystems, affords economic opportunities, and enhances the quality of life for the American public.

Disappearing coral reefs: the rain forest of the seas

Coral reefs are disappearing at an alarming rate, four times faster than the rainforest. Daniel Sieberg reports on one man’s fight to save this precious resource. (CBSNews.com)