Artificial Reefs: Restoration Beyond Recreation? Results are encouraging While artificial marine habitat development helps strengthen our ecosystems and fisheries, it also helps to strengthen our economy and our community. This is why we vigilantly monitor, measure, and study the SWARA reefs—augmenting and improving our efforts [...]

Red Snapper Distribution on Natural Structures and Artificial Habitats in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Critical Habitat Red Snapper are considered a high value species in the Gulf of Mexico, both in terms of ecology and recreation. The SWARA Reef sites, along with many others [...]

2017 Aptim Assessment Post-Deployment Observation Report The December 2017 SWARA Aptim Assessment is available for interested parties to download and review. Download PDF File