I don't know much about ORA, but I would think this situation to be very different. For one thing, look at what the corals were meant to be used for. Whether they were going to be "lab rat corals" or corals for restoration, prevention of contamination should have been a top priority. Besides that, it looks like much of the corals ended up dying or severely jeopardized.
In any case, if and when ORA were to apply for a permit to keep protected Florida corals, there'd be no mistaking who they were and what they did. In this situation, it looks like there was confusion over why these corals went to a commercial distributer and if the FKNMS really understood that that's where they were going.
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