Coral reefs face growing threats, including ocean acidification, warming ocean temperatures and coral bleaching, pollution, and over-exploitation that disrupts the reef’s delicate balance.

Rising Tide Conservation is an effort to reduce commercial collecting of reef fish by promoting captive breeding. This program provides a lifeline for reef populations by providing source alternatives. Many attempts to raise marine tropical fish have resulted in small successes. Rising Tide is an effort to move these advances to more widespread use.