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  • Marine conservation photojournalist Shane Gross
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    Bahamas Underwater Book by Shane Gross
  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) off Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen National Park), Cuba
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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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.
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  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) clings to algae on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • A great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) comes right for the camera in Bimini, Bahamas.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) uses echo-location to find prey hiding just under the sand, a strategy called "crater feeding" -  Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) portrait at night, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming over a coral reef crevasse, Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • Salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) nearing sea surface, Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, Pacific Ocean.
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  • A diver explores Chac Mool Cenote in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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  • Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) riding the bow wave of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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  • A hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) feeds on sponges along a coral wall off Moalboal, Philippines with sardines (Clupeidae) in the background.
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  • Larval wonderpus octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) drifting in the open ocean at night off Anilao, Philippines.
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  • A Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) photographed in a valley in Ciénaga de Zapata National Park. Cuban crocodiles and American crocodiles are interbreeding and creating hybrid offspring that threaten the survival of the Cuban species, which is down to only 4,000 individuals and listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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  • An almost blind Bahamas cave fish aka cusk eel (Lucifuga spelaeotes) at the bottom of a blue hole on Eleuthera 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.
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  • Scientists are predicting a queen conch (Lobatus gigas) fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated. Conch are the national food of the Bahamas and important culturally, economically and ecologically.
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  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) clining to algae in an alkaline pond on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
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  • Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) swimming near the surface in The Bahamas. *Note: This image is only for sale for Rights Managed or as a limited edition print. See my "Limited Editions" under the PRINTS tab for more information or send me an email for a quote.
    Mad World
  • Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) silhouette off Cat Island, Bahamas
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  • Great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) at the surface at sunset off Bimini in The Bahamas.
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  • Dead green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hooked and tangled in fishing line as bycatch. Image made in The Bahamas.
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  • Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) in attack mode, Bahamas.
    Squid Attack
  • A tourist waits at a restaurant specializing in conch dishes. The shells are a popular decoration throughout the Bahamian Islands.
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  • The jaws of a lemon shark are designed to eat fish. The bottom teeth are skinny and pointy to grip the thrashing fish while the top teeth are serrated and efficient at cutting flesh. 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.
    Lemon Shark Jaw
  • Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) accompanied by pilotfish (Naucrates ductor) off Cat Island, Bahamas.
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  • Portrait of False clown anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in anemone. Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.
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  • Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) off Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.
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  • A pod of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) underwater off Abaco, Bahamas.
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  • Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) swimming beneath the surface of the ocean. Indian Ocean, off Sri Lanka.
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  • An invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) takes shelter near a discarded plastic oil container in The Bahamas.
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  • Galapagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) feeding on Black Striped Salemas (Xenocys jessiae), Rabida Island, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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  • Orange anemonefish (Amphiprion sandaracinos) in its host sea anemone. Image made off Alor, Indonesia.
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  • Plastic bottles, bags and other plastic pollutants are carried on tidal currents in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Plastic pollution is among the largest problems the ocean faces.
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  • A scuba diver tries to free a large fishing net or ghost net from a coral reef in The Bahamas.
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  • A male nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) bites onto a female for mating in in shallows off Eleuthera, Bahamas while a second male waits for a turn.
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  • An invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunting at night off Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
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  • A scuba diver feeds an invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) to a Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) off Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. It was once thought that if the sharks learned that lionfish taste good they would actively hunt live lionfish. So far, that has not been the case.
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  • A Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) photographed in a cenote in Ciénaga de Zapata National Park. Cuban crocodiles and American crocodiles are interbreeding and creating hybrid offspring that threaten the survival of the Cuban species, which is down to only 4,000 individuals and listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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  • A nocturnal lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) clinging to algae at night in an alkaline pond called Sweeting Pond in The Bahamas.
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  • Close up image of the mouth of Artichoke Coral (Scolymia cubensis).
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  • A school of eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) on a coral reef in The Bahamas.
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  • Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) form a school, known as a squad, off 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.
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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.
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  • A swimmer with an orange life preserver excites microscopic dinoflagellates into producing bioluminescence. The Bio Bay near Parguera, Puerto Rico, is one of only five in the world and is a major tourist attraction. When the double hurricanes hit in 2017 two of Puerto Rico's three Bio Bays went dark, just like the cities, hurting tourism and jobs for months, if not years to come.
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  • Discarded fishing nets litter a mangrove creek in The Bahamas.
    Trashed
  • The eye of a queen conch (Lobatus gigas) peeks out from her shell. Conch have the incredible ability to regenerate a lost eye.
    Conch Eye
  • A woman in a white dress enters the sea.
    Silence
  • 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
  • Cancun, Mexico has exploded as a tourist destination with hotels, condos and entertainment following. This has come at a cost for the mangroves as they are continually cleared out and those that remain are heavily polluted. Some fear it is only a matter of time before Eleuthera will be "discovered" by the vacationing public and major developments will follow. 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.
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  • Something unfamiliar to lemon sharks is appearing all the more frequently - houses. This particular creek in North Eleuthera used to be a lemon shark pupping ground until houses began popping up. Even though this creek only has approx. 15% converted to human use, the pups left and never returned. Now more houses are being built.
    Invasion
  • 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.
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  • South Eleuthera conch fisherman crack the days catch. They use their pickup truck to transport the conch to the market parking lot so locals and tourists can have a chance to purchase the animal as it is being de-shelled. Conch are the national food of the Bahamas.
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  • Mangroves replaced by walls have proven to be less effective at mitigating the effects of large storms like hurricanes.
    The Wall
  • Mangroves are habitat for commercially important species such as these snapper. 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves18.jpg
  • 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves22.jpg
  • A baby lemon shark swimming in the protection provided by mangroves. 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves02.jpg
  • A Bahamian restaurateur de-shells a conch in preparation for conch salad - a local delicacy.
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  • 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. All of the ponds are under threat from development, invasive species and pollution. Protections are desperately needed.
    Eleuthera Inland Ponds009.jpg
  • A conch fisherman uses a small axe to crack the conch shell to get the muscle inslide. They sell the conch, a local delicacy, in a shopping center parking lot to locals and tourists alike.
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  • A red cave shrimp feasting on a dead crab that has fallen into an in-land pond on Eleuthera, Bahamas. Directly under the opening is a silty plain that is covered in the shrimp. When a possible food source falls into the pond the lucky shrimp will swim up off the bottom to avoid competition.
    Scavenger
  • Tourists snorkel with a lionfish. While they are a beautiful species to see most tourists are intrigued to learn about their history and often leave the excursion ready to buy lionfish at local restaurants possibly saving a native fish from the pan.
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  • A lemon shark pup is caught in a mangrove creek in south Eleuthera, Bahamas. At less than 2 feet he is a very young shark. He will be transported to a lab and then to an open-ocean pen for observation before being released as a tagged, wild shark. The shark will become a representative of the species. 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves10.jpg
  • Researchers Ian Bouyoucos and Cameron Raguse check if this lemon shark pup has been tagged. If it has been tagged the yellow scanner will pick up a rice-sized (PIT) tag near the base of the dorsal fin and give them a number identifying the shark. If it is a new shark a tag will be implanted.
    Scientific Discovery
  • Large predators like this great barracuda may also come into the mangroves looking for vulnerable meals. 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves19.jpg
  • A great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) comes right for the camera!
    Incoming Hammerhead
  • The bottom of a pond takes on other-worldly colors as debris from vegetation above begins to decay.
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  • A Bahamian restaurateur unshells a conch in preparation for conch salad - a local delicacy.
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  • An adult lemon shark opens wide for a cleaner wrasse. It is a symbiotic relationship where the shark's teeth, gills and other areas are cleaned of parasites and the wrasse gets a meal.
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  • The mangroves provide protection from large predators, mostly other sharks, as the prop roots are a tangle too tight for larger sharks to swim through. Lemon sharks will return to the same exact creek they were born in to give birth, a process known as natal philopatry. 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.
    LemonsAndMangroves03.jpg
  • Large channel clinging crabs (Mithrax spinosissimus) form a small fishery in The Pond. The fisherman only take a single claw from a crab. The claw will grow back and because the crab survives it has a good chance of remaining sustainable.
    Fishery
  • Conch are the national food of the Bahamas and very important economically. Scientists are predicting a fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated.
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  • Conch are the national food of the Bahamas. Scientists are predicting a fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated.
    BahamasConchFishery15.jpg
  • A conch chef enjoys the pistol while unshelling a conch.
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  • Queen conch off Harbour Island in the Bahamas. Conch are the national food of the Bahamas. Scientists are predicting a fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated. Conch are the national food of the Bahamas. Scientists are predicting a fishery collapse is imminent, but how best to protect them is heatedly debated.
    BahamasConchFishery02.jpg
  • Even divers who do not like to spear are joining the fight against the invasive lionfish
    SpearedInvasiveLionfish
  • A mural is painted on the side of a small grocery store on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas depicting how the fate of the Bahamian fishery is tied closely to that of the invasive lionfish. An island elder looks to the past as a healthy fishery becomes embattled.
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  • Eleuthera small business owner Holly Burrows wearing the lionfish jewellery she also sells. She sees the jewellery as both beautiful and important to Eleutheran waters.
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  • 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.
    Eleuthera Inland Ponds011.jpg
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