Reefs Quotes

As kind of a benchmark, let's say this can be as productive as South Bay, which is a beautiful body of water, ... The bottom is littered in sea grass beds, there are oyster beds, and there are oyster reefs. It has just about every type of organism we have here in the Texas coast. We hope this will eventually be a similar system. The historical accounts that we have indicate it was a system very similar to South Bay with sea grasses and plenty of shrimp and fish.

The scary thing is that even in the Great Barrier Reef, one of the most protected reefs in the world, researchers are seeing more diseases every time they look.

I think we can save reefs in the Caribbean and the Pacific. But we need proper water treatment systems throughout the world and large enough networks of marine reserves.

There was a lot of misinformation that came out after the tsunami hit that the reefs were devastated. We were able to clarify that.