State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources

The Hawaiʻi Coral Restoration Nursery (HCRN) is located at DAR’s Ānuenue Fisheries Research Center (AFRC) on Sand Island, O‘ahu, and is part of an innovative State of Hawaiʻi driven approach towards mitigating both planned (coastal development and dredging activities) and unplanned (vessel groundings and pollution spills) impact events on Hawaiian coral reefs. The HCRN uses small corals to rapidly grow large coral colonies at a land-based coral nursery which are then outplanted to damaged and degraded reefs.