VANCOUVER — It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's ...

A sample of the coral Lophelia pertusa he collected from the reef turned out to be 8,600 years old—it started growing not long after the first humans came to Norway. These reefs may lack legal ...

Under the U.S. Department of Interior’s Rigs-to-Reef program, almost 600 wells have been converted to reefs since the 1980s. But not every rig is suited to being repurposed as a reef.

Coral reefs are known for their rich biological diversity. In Sweden, only one reef-building coral species exists, a cold-water coral called Lophelia pertusa. Lophelia pertusa requires an environment ...

The only live coral reef in Pacific Canada, recently discovered off of BC’s central coast, is now protected for future generations. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) just announced a ban on all ...

A coral reef in Pacific Canada has been closed to commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing, including mid-water trawl as of Feb. 14. Located west of Bella Bella and just east of Klemtu in ...

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo.

Fish swim amidst pink coral in the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of the British Columbia coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, in an undated handout photo.

“Lophelia reef is very important to the ecosystem, to the biodiversity of that specific area, it adds to the overall health of that area,” Reid said.