Latest Saba Bank Atoll Stories

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Scientists have discovered what they believe is a new fish species and at least 20 types of previously unknown seaweeds during a recent expedition to one of the Caribbean's most diverse marine areas - a coral-covered underwater mountain off the Dutch island of Saba. It could take a year before researchers confirm the findings, which local fishermen, working with the Dutch Antilles government, are hoping to use to lobby authorities to steer oil tankers away from the...

By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOSLO -- Scientists have found new species of fish and seaweed on a Caribbean coral atoll that may be the most diverse marine habitat in the Atlantic region, they said on Tuesday.Divers in January found two new species of goby fish, each about a half-inch long, and a dozen new species of seaweed in a two-week study of the Saba Bank Atoll in the Dutch Windward Islands, 180 miles southeast of Puerto Rico."The atoll was poorly explored with only...