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The only hard corals that may be collected must be attached to cultured rock. With a fishing permit, many soft corals and gorgonians are legal and in those cases it's often legal to take a small amount of rock they're attached too. Ricordia are common in the Keys, but most of the places they're abundant are protected, so they can't be collected there. They're expensive because there aren't a whole lot of places outside of protected waters where they're abundant and the boundaries down there are so confusing a lot of people don't even bother trying to collect anything.
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