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  • A sign at Buttertubs marsh park in Nanaimo, BC, Canada warning hikers of a western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii) nesting area.
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  • A sign at Buttertubs marsh park in Nanaimo, BC, Canada warning hikers of a western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii) nesting area.
    20210208-DSC_4865.jpg
  • Two Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) battle for territory in the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, a Marine Protected Area, Bahamas
    20170718EX_034.jpg
  • Schools of fish including grunts, snappers and chubs swim along a coral reef in the marine protected area of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, Bahamas
    20170717EX_487.jpg
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the Mockhorn Island State Wildlife Management Area, a marshland off Oyster, Virginia, USA.
    20190527-DJI_0935.jpg
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the Mockhorn Island State Wildlife Management Area, a marshland off Oyster, Virginia, USA.
    20190527-DJI_0902.jpg
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the Mockhorn Island State Wildlife Management Area, a marshland off Oyster, Virginia, USA.
    20190529-DJI_0991.jpg
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the Mockhorn Island State Wildlife Management Area, a marshland off Oyster, Virginia, USA.
    20190527-DJI_0929.jpg
  • An aerial image showing the beautiful patterns formed in the Mockhorn Island State Wildlife Management Area, a marshland off Oyster, Virginia, USA.
    20190527-DJI_0928.jpg
  • A queen conch (Lobatus gigas) feeding on the algae growing on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum). Image made in Exuma, Bahamas.
    20171129-DSC_1787.jpg
  • Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) patrolling a coral reef filled with schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus) and other fish. Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba
    20170216GOTQ0757.jpg
  • A hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) on a coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen, Cuba
    20170214GOTQ0200.jpg
  • Black grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) on coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba.
    20170212GOTQ0252.jpg
  • A hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus) on a coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen, Cuba
    20170214GOTQ0195.jpg
  • Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) off Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen National Park), Cuba
    20170215GOTQ0207.jpg
  • Marine Biologist Alannah Vellacott takes a moment to film an adult Nassau grouper while doing coral surveys. Marine parks, like this one in The Exuma Cays, give heavily fished species a chance to live out their lifecycle.
    Observation
  • The reefs in Cuba's protected Gardens of the Queen are as healthy as they come in the Caribbean. Large predators like this Nassau grouper are a dead giveaway of a healthy ecosystem.
    NassauGrouperOnReef.jpg
  • What will the future hole for the Nassau grouper? It's up to us.
    20170212GOTQ0201.jpg
  • A coral covered wall with a Caribbean reef shark in the Background.
    TheWall
  • Researcher Hailey Davies uses a downrigger and action camera to monitor the lowering of a tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus) for a study on fish barotrauma, whereby the gases in a fish expand as it is brought to the surface. The study took place off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada in 2020.
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  • Researcher Hailey Davies uses a downrigger and action camera to monitor the lowering of a tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus) for a study on fish barotrauma, whereby the gases in a fish expand as it is brought to the surface. The study took place off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada in 2020.
    20201031-500_7472.jpg
  • Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) swimming over pristine coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba.
    20170216GOTQ0425.jpg
  • Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) swimming over pristine coral reef in Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba.
    20170212GOTQ0000.jpg
  • A large black grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) in the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, Bahamas.
    20170719EX_393.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0566.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0255.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0218.jpg
  • A southern elephant seal weaner (Mirounga leonina) rests next to a whale bone between former whaling and sealing vessels in Grytviken, South Georgia
    20211129-501_3091.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_9937.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0554.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0129.jpg
  • Bay scallops (Argopecten irradians) being given a helping hand by researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-imergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-501_1405.jpg
  • Bay scallops (Argopecten irradians) on the deck of a research boat. Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-imergence, being helped along by researchers, is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-501_1331.jpg
  • Microplastics from a manta trawl in the Sargasso Sea ocean gyre are placed on a map of the area as a visual demonstration.
    20190811-501_6013.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_27LemonShark789.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2015_12_10HI025.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170930-1291.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0973.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_16HI715.jpg
  • A small (1cm) unidentified fish hiding inside a pelagic tunicate. Image made in the Sargasso Sea, an area in the Atlantic ocean in International Waters.
    20190803-500_5519.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0571.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0470.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0164.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass in an area in need of restoration in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland with the SeaChange Society stuffs eelgrass (Zostera marina) into a mesh bag. The seagrass is being taken from a robust eelgrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass in an area in need of restoration in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-500_9702.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass to an area in need of restoration.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • Where humans go, so to does trash. A mangrove island off Parguera, which helped protect the area during the 2017 double hurricanes, is also a popular party stop for tourists.
    Gross_PuertoRico013.jpg
  • Bay scallops (Argopecten irradians) being given a helping hand by researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-imergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-501_1384.jpg
  • Three nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in a courtship dance at sunrise in a mangrove area near Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • Two nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in a courtship dance at sunrise in a mangrove area near Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180609-501_3495.jpg
  • Three nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in a courtship dance at sunrise in a mangrove area near Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180609-501_3468.jpg
  • Three nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in a courtship dance at sunrise in a mangrove area near Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180609-501_3484.jpg
  • A small (1cm) unidentified fish hiding inside a pelagic tunicate. Image made in the Sargasso Sea, an area in the Atlantic ocean in International Waters.
    20190803-500_5519.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1122.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) are social animals, proven to form friendships. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI265-2.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1299.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_14LemonShark249.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1048.jpg
  • Researchers Ian Bouyoucos and Cam Raguse test whether a lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) had been previously tagged at the Cape Eleuthera Insitute in The Bahamas. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development.
    2015_09_09_CEI392.jpg
  • Researchers Ian Bouyoucos and Cam Raguse test whether a lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) had been previously tagged at the Cape Eleuthera Insitute in The Bahamas. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development.
    2015_09_09_CEI308.jpg
  • An adult lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) pauses in the sand to be cleaned by a small cleaner wrasse. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made off Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.
    2014_10_06TB719 2.jpg
  • Microplastics from a manta trawl in the Sargasso Sea are placed on a map of the area as a visual demonstration.
    20190811-501_6013.jpg
  • Mangroves in Alligator Creek, Cat Island. Alligator Creek is a proposed Marine Protected Area as part of  the Bahamas Protected initiative to set aside 20% of near shore areas as marine managed areas by the year 2020.
    20180716-500_7422.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_15Lemons507.jpg
  • Men at a construction site in a mangrove area. The site will become a restaurant, night club and small hotel.
    LemonsAndMangroves06.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_9969.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0440.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0243.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0174.jpg
  • Gumball machines filled with fish food line a tourist dock in Parguera, Puerto Rico, to feed the protected tarpon fish. This area of Puerto Rico was one of the least hit during the double hurricanes of 2017.
    Gross_PuertoRico043.jpg
  • Gumball machines filled with fish food line a tourist dock in Parguera, Puerto Rico, to feed the protected tarpon fish. This area of Puerto Rico was one of the least hit during the double hurricanes of 2017.
    Gross_PuertoRico042.jpg
  • A bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) found while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, seeds for the world's largest seagrass restoration project. Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-imergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-501_1314.jpg
  • A male nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) bites onto a female for mating in a mangrove area off Eleuthera, Bahamas
    20170605HI0657.jpg
  • A nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) hiding under a ship wreck off Cancun, Mexico. During the day the sharks often rest in a sheltered area, coming out to feed at night.
    2016_01_20Cancun015.jpg
  • In 5mm squares micro-pastics are sorted by a scientist. The sample was taken in International Waters in an area of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
    20190803-500_5411.jpg
  • In 5mm squares micro-fibers are sorted by a scientist. The sample was taken in International Waters in an area of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
    20190803-500_5433.jpg
  • In 5mm squares micro-pastics are sorted by a scientist. The sample was taken in International Waters in an area of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
    20190803-500_5392.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_15Lemons507.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0106.jpg
  • A lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) in a research tank at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas is used for a study on the social lives of sharks before being released back into the wild. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2015_11_30HI397.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170605HI0041.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_28LemonShark099.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0952.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0855.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI526.jpg
  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast.<br />
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Seagrass sequesters carbon more efficiently than rainforests and this technique is being repeated now off the coast of the United Kingdom. These restorations could really help in our fight against climate change.<br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
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  • Gumball machines filled with fish food line a tourist dock in Parguera, Puerto Rico, to feed the protected tarpon fish. This area of Puerto Rico was one of the least hit during the double hurricanes of 2017.
    Gross_PuertoRico042.jpg
  • An inland pond on Eleuthera with an especially high density of shrimp. This pond is currently under threat of development as trees surrounding the area have been chopped down. Plans are highly secret. Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas has almost 200 in-land ponds. Some of these hold amazing treasures like a yet-to-be described cave shrimp. One pond even holds the record for the highest density of seahorses in the world. All of the ponds are under threat from development, invasive species and pollution. Protections are desperately needed.
    ShrimpDensity
  • Even pups are targeted by sport fisherman looking for the thrill of catching a shark. The area surrounding mangrove creeks are usually sand flats home to bone fish. Sharks are often a side attraction to popular catch and release bone fishing. Lemon sharks depend on mangroves for the survival of the first 5-8 years of their lives. Mangroves are disappearing throughout the world and the fate of the lemon shark is left in the balance. We need to get proper protections for the world's mangroves and then enforce them.
    LemonsAndMangroves08.jpg
  • Tiger sharks enjoy protection while in The Bahamas, but are still targeted as soon as they leave the area. Male tigers, like the one pictured, are especially rare as they tend to venture in and out of Bahamian waters frequently.
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  • Viki Kolatkova, PhD student and commercial diver with the SeaChange Society, plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) in an area that once had lush seagrass meadows that were destroyed due to human activities.
    20210928-500_0323.jpg
  • Professor Robert "JJ" Orth shows off a bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) he found while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, seeds for the world's largest seagrass restoration project. Seagrass disappeared from the area in the 1930's and with the seagrass went the scallop fishery, the largest in the USA at the time. Their re-emergence is considered a major conservation victory. Image made off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-500_6681.jpg
  • A barge constructs a large dock and breakwater for superyachts in a seagrass area as bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) approach. Harbour Island, Bahamas.
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  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0908.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI650.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • A Critically Endangered hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swims through a coral reef crevasse. Hawksbills eat coral sponges and, therefore, depend on healthy reefs for their survival. In this area known as the Gardens of the Queen in Cuba, is a well-protected Marine Sanctuary and one of the last places in the Caribbean to have healthy reefs.
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