Serious efforts to manage the Mediterranean’s red-coral fishery didn’t commence until the late 1970s, after harvests peaked and began to fall. By the early 1980s, data revealed a steep drop in ...

Centuries-old Mediterranean red coral colonies grow on the ceiling of an underwater cave in the Scandola Marine Reserve, Corsica. There are only a handful of places in the entire Mediterranean ...

Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum) has been highly valued for jewellery since ancient times.But intensive fishing, particularly in shallow waters, has transformed populations and hindered ...

Protection measures of the Marine Protected Areas have enable red coral colonies (Corallium rubrum) to recover partially in the Mediterranean Sea, reaching health levels similar to those of the ...

In 2003, a marine heat wave devastated coral reef communities in the Mediterranean Sea, including the reefs in the Scandola Marine Reserve, a protected region off the coast of Corsica. More than ...

The region’s red coral harvest reached a peak of nearly 100 million tons in 1978 and then declined rapidly. International fishing treaties drafted by the U.N.’s General Fisheries Commission ...

Mediterranean red coral, with a potential lifespan of more than 500 years, live at depths of over half a mile deep. The longest-lived known marine species, Montero-Serra says, ...

A decade after being transplanted, red coral colonies seized from illegal fishing have successfully thrived, contributing to the recovery of coral reefs in the Medes Islands. This long-term success ...

The only other Red Sea soft coral to be identified to date in the Eastern Mediterranean is Melithaea erythraea. That was first documented in the waters warmed by the Hadera power plant, just off ...