by Mike Tuccinardi | Aug 3, 2017 | CORAL - Mike Tuccinardi, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
A CORAL Magazine excerpt from the July/August 2017 issue Part 1 | Part 2 by Michael J. Tuccinard The smoke from a smoldering cooking fire filled the small room and lingered just above the packed-earth floor. I was in the village’s only open “restaurant,” along with a...
by Mike Tuccinardi | Jul 18, 2017 | CORAL - Mike Tuccinardi, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
a CORAL Magazine excerpt from the May/June 2017 issue Part 1 | Part 2 by Michael J. Tuccinardi Despite being the second-largest landmass on Earth, bounded by two oceans and two seas and having tens of thousands of miles of coastline, the African continent does not...
by Mike Tuccinardi | May 25, 2016 | CORAL - Mike Tuccinardi, Marine
Traveling in the Amazon basin doesn’t usually afford much chance to see marine life—aside from a brief stop in Lima, Peru, I hadn’t seen the ocean in months. But towards the end of my travels, I had the opportunity to embrace my love of all things salty...
by Jay Hemdal | Dec 15, 2014 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
It has been known for many years that larval tropical fish are transported northward along the Atlantic coast of North America by the Gulf Stream current. Towards the end of the summer, some of these larvae have settled out in the shallows around Long Island. Species...
by Matthew L. Wittenrich | Mar 4, 2008 | CORAL - Matthew L. Wittenrich, Marine
An urgent rationale for captive breeding of these popular fishes The fishery for mandarinfishes, especially the Green Mandarin and Spotted Mandarin is highly selective, targeting large males. For aquarists hoping to breed these fishes, finding a female can often be a...
