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Science 25 May 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5828, p. 1113
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5828.1113b
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ScienceScope
CREDIT: IMAGE COURTESY OF AMY BACO-TAYLOR/HURL/NOAA
The United States has proposed international controls on the little-known trade of red coral, a deep-water species found in the Pacific and the Mediterranean. The U.S. wants it listed as threatened at next month's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in The Hague, The Netherlands. This would force importers and exporters of 27 species of Corallium to seek CITES approval for each transaction, "allowing us to learn more about the trade," says Lance Morgan of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Glen Ellen, California. The listing would also bring more focus on destructive bottom-trawling methods historically used to gather this coral prized by jewelers, he adds. Stephen Cairns, a coral taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., says red coral is "more valuable and depleted than any others," such as the already listed black coral and hard coral.
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