The state of the Reef.

What more can a sport fisherman ask for?

Whales, porpoise, sea turtles and bat rays that regularly college by the hundreds and perform what nearly seems to be a choreographed routine of synchronized jumps. Fly fishing. Jacqueline "Jacquie" Lee, owner of Guerita II, set us up for 2 days of fishing with Captain Efren Beron Zamora and crewman Jesus Alfredo Espinoza. Threats from over-fishing, urban coastal encroachment and rising sea temperatures are destroying sensitive corals and devastating the sea life they support.

Luckily , there's a growing dedicated worldwide effort to reversing this decline and to finding new - and sustainable - paths to manage the last of Earth's remaining coral reefs. These are some reef facts for you to think about.

Coral reefs are home to above twenty-five p.c of all sea life - yet occupy less than one % of the sea floors.

Coral reefs have been around one hundred million years and are the biggest living structures on earth. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is more than two thousand km long and can be seen from outer space.

Indeed, over half of all new cancer drug research concentrates on sea organisms.

Corals are animals-not rocks or plants-and they come in 2 types, hard and soft. Everything is washed in reds, oranges and yellows and the sky seems to be on fire. Inhabitants of the northern most portion of the ocean of Cortez, these alien looking creatures have slowly made their way down to the southern tip of the Baja recently.