Coral reef protection is being promoted through the creation of protected areas, emphasizing indigenous and customary practices relating to harvesting and fishing, and regulating other fishing and shipping practices.

There was no fishing, there was no pollution, there was no coastal development, and the reef is on a full bore recovery.

And that is the same reef that's the same reef 15 years ago that's the same reef today.

The reef!

Provision of support for the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) for promoting effective and sustainable coral reef management practices.

We're crocheting a coral reef.

Coral reef in New Caledonia.

20 degrees right, Midway reef!

And there's a beautiful reef, very complex reef, with lots of animals, including a lot of octopus.

Find a hole in the reef.

I'd never seen the reef here before.

Coral reef ecosystems are invaluable human treasures.

In the coral reef, biologists use dynamite.

Why on earth are you crocheting a reef?

I'm an ecologist, mostly a coral reef ecologist.

The coral reef is the region's prime attraction.

The launch is heading out beyond the reef.

Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine coral reef, a virgin coral reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.

Why not chisel a coral reef out of marble?

The Australian Great Barrier Reef is another success story.

Now, see this strange, underwater, coral reef looking thing?

You'll find it somewhere this side of the reef.

I told you there's no passage through that reef.

I should have led you up on the reef.

They clean the reef everything that grows enough to be seen, they eat, and they keep the reef clean and allow the corals to replenish.

This is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef.

Do we have evidence of this? Yes, coral reef systems.

How does the reef work? Well, it's very, very simple.

Another example Nassau groupers in Belize in the Mesoamerican Reef.

Take it slow along the reef. Eddie, lower the ramp.

Under the realization from tourist operators, fishermen, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Authority and scientists that the Great Barrier Reef is doomed under the current governance regime.

And the people in Chicago made a reef of their own.

I never had any anchored ship He lost in this reef.

Following the success of the 1997 Pacific Year of the Coral Reef, the 18 member countries met in April 1998 to develop a Five Year Coral Reef Strategic Action Plan.

Fishing

Fishing?

Fishing ?

Fishing.

The water had started coming back. It was foaming over the reef.

Anyway, one tree is situated right next to a beautiful coral reef.

The reef is 1,600 kilometres long and covers about 8,000 square kilometres.

And that Clegg left this mulatto to starve on a coral reef.

Fishing overcapacity

Fishing agreements

Sea fishing