The remaining recruits are returned to the field

Although we have high hopes of rearing the coral recruits at the Miami Hatchery, we are also experimenting with techniques to rear them in the field. Together with the staff of the Keys Marine Lab (Cindy Lewis and Andrew Crowder), a frame was installed on the reef to hold a series of our settlement tiles.

Cindy Lewis and Mary Alice Coffroth pounding in the rebar to anchor the frame in place.


Positioning the settlement tiles with new recruits in the frame






The frame completed and in place