{"id":36174,"date":"2025-03-16T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/underwater-doorbell-helps-scientists-catch-coral-eating-fish-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:15:29","slug":"underwater-doorbell-helps-scientists-catch-coral-eating-fish-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/underwater-doorbell-helps-scientists-catch-coral-eating-fish-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater \u2018doorbell\u2019 helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use innovative cameras to identify fish species hindering coral reef restoration<\/p>\n<p>Marine scientists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> working to help reverse a calamitous decades-long decline in coral reefs caught fishy \u201cporch pirates\u201d in the act with an innovative underwater doorbell-style surveillance camera.<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed that three corallivorous species \u2013 redband parrotfish, foureye butterflyfish and stoplight parrotfish \u2013 were responsible for eating more than 97% of coral laid as bait by the researchers at an offshore reef near Miami.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/16\/underwater-doorbell-scientists-coral-eating-fish-florida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers use innovative cameras to identify fish species hindering coral reef restoration Marine scientists in Florida working to help reverse a calamitous decades-long decline in coral reefs caught fishy \u201cporch pirates\u201d in the act with an innovative underwater doorbell-style surveillance camera. The footage showed that three corallivorous species \u2013 redband parrotfish, foureye butterflyfish and stoplight &#8230; <a title=\"Underwater \u2018doorbell\u2019 helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/underwater-doorbell-helps-scientists-catch-coral-eating-fish-in-florida\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Underwater \u2018doorbell\u2019 helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}