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  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) showing esophageal aversion for tagging before descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Researcher Hailey Davies checks a tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus) for signs of barotrauma before descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish catch and release barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Researcher Hailey Davies uses her cell phone to photograph a juvenile yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) before tagging and then descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a tagged yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) for release by descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20211006-DSC_9260.jpg
  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a tagged canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) for release by descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20211013-501_1452.jpg
  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) for tagging before descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20211013-501_1387.jpg
  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a tagged yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) for release by descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20211013-501_1330.jpg
  • Researcher Hailey Davies readies a yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) for tagging before descending the fish back to the deep as part of a study on rockfish barotrauma. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20211006-DSC_9289.jpg
  • Marine Biologist Olivia Rhoades tends to her experiment on seagrass predators and scavengers in The Bahamas.
    20190320-500_4912.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
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
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  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) being measured by a scientist.
    2016_02_11HI154.jpg
  • PhD student and researcher Jillian Dunic studies eelgrass (Zostera marina) from her make-shift home lab (due to COVID-19) on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190531-500_8872.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.
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  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190531-501_1961.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
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190528-500_6631.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
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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 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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  • PhD student and researcher Jillian Dunic studies eelgrass (Zostera marina) from her make-shift home lab (due to COVID-19) on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210719-DSC_7466.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190530-500_7429.jpg
  • Scientists with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) keep densities of scallops high, but in the ocean, hoping for successful reproduction and the reintroduction of scallops to the area after being absent since 1933.
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  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5459.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5249.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5301.jpg
  • Marine Ecologist Dr. Olivia Rhoades tends to her experiment on seagrass predators and scavengers in The Bahamas.
    Science
  • Scientists from the Cape Eleuthera Institute catch a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), take samples, tag and release her. The long-term study is to determine best practices for turtle conservation.
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  • Marine biologist Dr. Heather Masonjones tags a seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, to study an alkaline pond's population. Through this method of injecting a non-toxic dye, that can only be seen under ultra-violet light, she proved that this pond in The Bahamas has the highest density of seahorses on Earth.
    2016_02_11HI075.jpg
  • Marine Biologist Olivia Rhoades tends to her experiment on seagrass herbivory. An action camera records which animals are feeding on the seagrass and bite marks indicate frequency. Image made off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • Dr. Heather Masonjones talks with Bahamian school children about the amazing seahorse pond in their backyard. None of them had heard about it before this talk.
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  • A small Cuban dogfish shark (Squalus cubensis) is caught during a long-term study of deep water sharks in The Bahamas. The shark was released unharmed.
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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.
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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
  • PhD student and researcher Jillian Dunic studies eelgrass (Zostera marina) from her make-shift home lab (due to COVID-19) on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210719-DSC_7470.jpg
  • Researcher Ian Bouyoucos of the Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) releases a lemon shark pup into his temporary enclosure. One of the leading causes of shark mortality is as bycatch in longline fisheries. The team at the CEI are looking at physiological and behavioural responses to being caught with the hopes of establishing 'best practice' guidelines for releasing sharks from long lines.
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  • A lemon shark is kept in a tank for study by marine biologists.
    LemonSharkStory07.jpg
  • Scientist Bo Lusk teaches volunteers with The Nature Conservancy about bay scallops and seagrass in Virginia, USA during the annual seagrass seed collection for the world's largest seagrass restoration project.
    20190531-501_2166.jpg
  • A scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) releases a juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) after tagging the fish off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190513-501_0962.jpg
  • Elkhorn corals (Acropora palmata) at night silhouetted by a scientists light during the annual coral spawn. Image made off Abaco, Bahamas.
    20180801-500_8492.jpg
  • Marine biologist Dr. Heather Masonjones tags a seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, to study an alkaline pond's population. Through this method of injecting a non-toxic dye, that can only be seen under ultra-violet light, she proved that this pond in The Bahamas has the highest density of seahorses on Earth.
    2016_02_11HI452.jpg
  • A baited remote underwater video (BRUV) setup by scientists to determine predator abudance in The Bahamas.
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  • Veterinarian Lesly Cabrias performs surgery on an abandoned manatee calf at the Manatee Conservation Center in Puerto Rico. Image release available.
    Gross_PuertoRico108.jpg
  • Marine biologist Tanya Kamerman monitors her ongoing project of growing corals (Acropora cervicornis) in an open-ocean coral nursery for future reef transplanting. As coral reefs decline worldwide scientists are looking for the best ways to help save our reefs.
    20170719EX_609.jpg
  • A cuban dogfish shark, Squalus cubensis, swims back to the depths after being tagged and released by scientists at the Cape Eleuthera Institute.
    2014_04_17_HI042.jpg
  • 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 Ponds012.tif
  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) at night lit by a blacklight to determine if the individual is tagged.
    2016_03_03_HI221.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9111.jpg
  • Leather star (Dermasterias imbricata) and California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9108.jpg
  • Scientists with The Nature Conservancy use their bodies to stir eelgrass (Zostera marina) in large vats where seagrass seeds will seperate from the leaves for later dispersal. This seagrass restoration project in Virginia, USA is the largest and most successful in the world.
    20190531-501_2196.jpg
  • A researcher with The Nature Conservancy adds eelgrass (Zostera marina) to a large vat where seagrass seeds will seperate from the leaves for later dispersal. This seagrass restoration project in Virginia, USA is the largest and most successful in the world.
    20190531-501_2091.jpg
  • Scientist Bo Lusk with The Nature Conservancy teaches a volunteer what to look for while collecting eelgrass (Zostera marina) seeds for a seagrass restoration project off Virginia, USA.
    20190528-501_1179.jpg
  • A scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) holds a juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) ready for release after tagging the fish off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190513-501_0685.jpg
  • Researchers stitch up a juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) after implanting a tag the fish off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190513-501_0901.jpg
  • A scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) releases a juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) after tagging the fish off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190513-501_0669.jpg
  • Critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) gather during the winter full moons to spawn. Image made in The Bahamas.
    2016_12_13LongIslandBH401.jpg
  • A fisherman's cage is pulled up by researchers. It is illegal to fish for Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) December - February in the Bahamas when this image was taken. Lack of enforcement is a common issue in Bahamian fisheries. The scientists tagged and released the fish. It is part of an ongoing study to learn about the amazing phenomenon known as the grouper spawning aggregation. During the winter full moons the normally solitary grouper gather en masse to spawn at certain locations throughout the Caribbean and are especially vulnerable to over-fishing. Learning about these aggregations is of major importance to protect and manage the economically and culturally important fishery for these critically endangered fish.
    2016_12_13LongIslandBH590.jpg
  • Invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) in a lab tank to be studied by researchers at the Cape Eleuthera Institute.
    2015_09_08_CEI316.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
  • Scientist Nerine Constant measures a mat of sargassum seaweed as part of their study to see if sargassum might act as an incubator to sea turtles with warmer temperatures than the surrounding water.
    20190802-500_4973.jpg
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  • Baby lemon sharks have been shown to exhibit distinct, individual personalities. Some even form friendships. Studies have shown the little sharks will spend more social time with certain individuals and can even learn from each other.
    Friends
  • Marine biologist Tanya Kamerman collects Coralliophila abbreviata (recently changed to C. galea) a type of snail that are an indigenous coral predator that have become a greater concern with the decline of coral populations. Currently they are working on finding what their key predators are so we can better protect coral reefs and help restore the balance of the ecosystem.
    20170717EX_250.jpg
  • Dr. Krista Sherman brings a Nassau grouper to the depth the fish was originally caught at. The fish was implanted with a permanent tag that will transmit the fish's location for the rest of his or her life. Blood and a fin clip were also taken for genetic analysis.
    Release
  • A cuban dogfish shark, Squalus cubensis, swims back to the depths after being tagged and released by scientists at the Cape Eleuthera Institute.
    2014_04_17_HI041.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
  • Renowned manatee scientist Jim Reid places a satellite tag on a pregnant manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) named Gina in the Bahamas
    2014_02_12_HI005.jpg
  • Dr. Heather Mason-Jones of the University of Tampa uses a syringe to tag the tiny seahorse.
    BlueHoleStory09.jpg
  • A marine biologist uses a tiny syringe to tag a seahorse for a population study.
    2016_02_11HI452.jpg
  • 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
  • An inland pond on North Eleuthera lets the high sun pour in. The pond is mostly dark and cold, yet hosts interesting and little-known life.
    Eleuthera Inland Ponds002.jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • Marine biologist Dr. Heather Masonjones observes a seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) in an alkaline pond. She proved that this pond in The Bahamas has the highest density of seahorses on Earth and showed the first evidence that seahorses are nocturnal.
    20170521HI531.jpg
  • California Sea Cucumber (Parastichopus californicus) with an unexplained wasting disease. Underwater, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
    20210923-500_9133.jpg
  • Aerial view of the research vessel the Red Ape during a rockfish study off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus) showing signs of barotrauma including bulging eyes, ocular emphysema and Esophageal eversion. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Mushroom ascidians (Distaplia occidentalis) in white and orange variations at left and pale soft coral (thrombophyton trachydermum) at right in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5291.jpg
  • Marine biologist Dr. Heather Masonjones tags a seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, to study an alkaline pond's population. Through this method of injecting a non-toxic dye, that can only be seen under ultra-violet light, she proved that this pond in The Bahamas has the highest density of seahorses on Earth.
    2016_02_11HI452.jpg
  • A common guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos) searching for food among the seagrass off Marsa Alam, Egypt.
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  • Scientist Bo Lusk collects eelgrass (Zostera marina) shoots with seeds as part of a seagrass restoration project off the Virginia, USA coast.
    20190529-500_6910.jpg
  • A scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) holds a juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) ready for release after tagging the fish off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190513-501_0709.jpg
  • Critically endangered Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) gather during the winter full moons to spawn. Image made in The Bahamas.
    2016_12_13LongIslandBH397.jpg
  • Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) showing the change in color pattern during spawning. During the winter full moons the normally solitary grouper gather en masse to spawn at certain locations throughout the Caribbean. Critically Endangered Species. Bahamas
    2016_12_13LongIslandBH058.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.
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  • Marine biologist Alannah Vellacott measures a brain coral (Colpophyllia natans) as part of an ongoing program to monitor and restore coral reefs in The Bahamas. Image made off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • 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
  • Setting up scientist Celia Ojeda Martinez's eDNA experiment. With this, the researchers can determine which species have been in the immediate area in the last days.
    20190806-501_4988.jpg
  • In 5mm squares micro-pastics are sorted by a plastics researcher.
    20190803-500_5411.jpg
  • The manta trawl is hung over the side of the boat and skims the surface to collect microplastics.
    20190730-501_3254.jpg
  • Crew of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza during its expedition to the Sargasso Sea ready a manta trawl to collect and measure the amount of microplastics on the surface.
    20190730-501_3202.jpg
  • Dr, Heather Masonjones uses special tools to measure the different parts of the seahorse.
    2016_02_11HI154.jpg
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  • Marine biologist Agnessa Lundy with The Bahamas National Trust assesses a coral reef in the Exuma Cays land and Sea Park. As coral reef health continues to decline worldwide scientists are trying to find the best ways to help reefs which includes areas like this park where no extraction is legal.
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  • A fisherman's cage is pulled up by researchers. It is illegal to fish for Nassau grouper December - February in the Bahamas when this image was taken. Lack of enforcement is a common issue in Bahamian fisheries issues. The scientists tagged and released the fish.
    Illegal Fishing
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