Credit: UF/IFAS file photograph.
Craig Watson, director of the UF/IFAS Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, holds a coral fragment grown in an outdoor greenhouse at the facility. UF/IFAS is the first research entity to have scientists at the new Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach, Watson said. UF/IFAS scientists will study marine ecosystems and sea turtles to help protect Tampa Bay and to boost its fishing economy.