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A tiny blue-eyed triplefin fish, about the size of a grain of rice poses amongst its hydroid home. Poor Knights Marine Reserve, New Zealand

A moray eel emerges from a sponge at dusk, reeady to begn foraging at night. Marine reserves like Poor Knights in New Zealand protect entire ecosystems and restore surrounding seas.
Image Title = Hunting Moray Eel

Undisturbed species like this Sandagger's wrasse are part of the diverse and abundant ecosystem in New Zealand's Poor Knight reserve. Marine regions such as this have been restored thanks to fully no-take protection.

A forest of black coral, which can live for 300 years, grows in Wet Jacket Arm reserve. New Zealand's reserves offer a benchmark of such wonders, a way to guage change in the oceans.

A New Zealand Fur Seal pup peeks through fronds of kelp within its rookery. All marine mammals are protected in New Zealand, howevere in marine reserves such as this, they are one part of a healthy complext ecosystem.

Restoring balance between predator and prey, once overfished snapper eat sea urchins that had nearly denuded the reefs at Goat Island reserve in New Zealand. Creating marine reserves allows a baseline to be created for conservation.

A school of blue mao-mao fish stream over kelp in New Zealand's Poor Knights Marine Reserve. After 20 years of no-take protection, this reserve has been restored to an ecosystem of great diversity and abundance.

A short-tailed stingray rides the currents through an underwater canyon in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. New Zealand, praised as a world leader in marine protection, considers the ecological preservation of such seascapes to be in its national…

Image Caption = Environmentally friendly aquaculture comapines like Snapperfarm in Puerto Rico are filling a void left by declining stocks in the wild. This open-ocean system, with deepwater cages in high current areas that disperse excrement from…

Large female Mako Shark being finned at shark camp near Santa Rosalia, Mexico.