Coral farming has other beneficial or economically valuable uses beyond the aquarium trade (Table 1). I have also compiled a table of sources of aquacultured corals (Table 2). I apologize to any people or companies who aquaculture but are not listed, and would encourage everyone I have omitted to contact me so that I can add their names to the list. While in most cases cultured coral is ecologically favorable to wild-collected coral, it is generally acknowledged that the economically preferable option is to allow coral collectors to maintain their employment by teaching them to become coral mariculturists, rather than supplanting resource country opportunities by displacing wild collection with land-based aquaculture outside those resource countries. The numerous attempts to begin coral mariculture have not, unfortunately, lessened the impact of wild collection to date. However, more and more mariculture operations are now forming, becoming viable, and substituting larger proportions of cultured corals for wild harvest. I wrote about such a coral farm, that was attempting to bring Caribbean cultured corals to the aquarium trade, several years ago.