Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) a non-profit organisation was established by Ken Nedimyer, a commercial fish collector and live rock farmer who, as a longtime resident of the Florida Keys, had seen, first-hand, the decline of the local reefs through the decades. CRF is now actively restoring coral reefs on a large scale. They grow corals in offshore Coral Tree™ Nurseries, and then outplant them onto carefully selected sites. CRF has now planted almost 70,000 critically endangered staghorn and elkhorn corals back onto the Florida Reef Tract.