Sea foals in the sea shoals.

Too many seahorses have been corraled. In some parts of the world they are used for food or medicine. Experts worry their numbers are dropping.

Seahorses live in shoals (sholes--shallow waters) and they don't sting or bite, so they are easy to catch as they go about their business of catching and eating thousands of tiny, tiny shrimp.

Seahorse farms may help to solve the problem. Fishermen donate seahorses that are ready to have babies. Seahorses are very unusual. The males carry the eggs until the babies, as many as 200, are ready to be born.

At the seahorse farm, the seahorses stay in netted enclosures with holes so small the seahorses can't get out. But when the babies are born, they are small enough to swim through the holes and get away.