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Healthy Acroporid Coral Reefs in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Caption: This photo shows Hawaiian chubs (Kyphosus species) and other reef fish swimming near the healthy Acropora cytherea species coral reefs found at French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Credit: Jamison Gove, JIMAR/NOAA CRED

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