A healthy coral reef is one of the most economically valuable ecosystems there are, as they can provide us with lots of vital ecosystem services. They can provide food for billions in the form of the fish that live there, approximately half of the federally managed fisheries in the U.S depend on coral reefs, give our coastlines shelter from storms and are the home to lots of different kinds of fish and other organisms, almost 4,000 species of fish and about 800 species of hard corals all while covering less than one tenth of the ocean floor.Their rough surfaces and complex structures dissipate a lot of the force of incoming waves, thus lessening the strain on our coastlines. They also provide us with jobs in the form of fishing, recreation
