Fiji has some of the largest and best developed and most diverse coral reef systems in the South West Pacific region. All reef types are represented and these are fringing reefs, barrier reefs, platform reefs, oceanic ribbon reefs, drowned reefs, atolls and near atolls.

The largest fringing reef is the Coral Coast reef of Viti Levu...

Fiji's largest barrier reef is the Great Sea Reef along the Fiji micro plate shelf edge of northern Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. its lengths of 370 km makes it one of the longest reefs in the south Pacific.

Atoll reefs formed by volcanic and magma upwelling processes, along the eastern Fiji micro plate shelf edge through Central Fiji,  make up the majority of the Lomaiviti reefs........

There are 6 distinctively different areas of reef morphology in Fiji. dynamic processes such as major ocean currents, tidal currents, effects from predominating winds, regulate the diversity of the Coral reef system in Fiji. 

The high fishing pressure on most of Fijis reefs has resulted in stressed fish stocks. several prime food species are heavily over fished. Crown of Thorn starfish outbreaks are just one sample consequence of removal through fishing and gleaning of the spectrum of predators of the juvenile and adult stages.
Most reefs in Fiji are moderately to heavily fished. Some remote island locations, such as lau group or kadavu, ... depend alsomst entirley on the ocean as recourse of income.


Mass coral bleaching is occasional and has last occurred in early 2000 affecting reefs all over Fiji at different extent.

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