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  • Life on a small scale thrives on individual seagrass blades. Here, colonies of Electra posidoniae (the chain link things) and Lichenopora radiata (the white things) bryozoans on a Posidonia oceanica seagrass blade. If you include this level of organism in the equation, seagrass rivals rain forests in biodiversity.
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  • A portrait of a Scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) on red soft coral (Eunephthya rubiformis) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5434.jpg
  • A portrait of a Scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) on red soft coral (Eunephthya rubiformis) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5574.jpg
  • A Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) cruises over a sand flat in The Bahamas.
    2016_12_08HI108.jpg
  • A scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5584.jpg
  • A scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) hiding in short plumose anemones (Metridium senile) Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5462.jpg
  • A portrait of a Scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) on red soft coral (Eunephthya rubiformis) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210320-500_5022.jpg
  • A school of smallmouth grunts (Haemulon chrysargyreum) swim over a coral reef off Cancun, Mexico. Slow shutterspeed image.
    2016_01_21Cancun483.jpg
  • Banded Clinging Crab (Mithraculus cinctimanus) hiding under a sea anemone. Image made off Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
    20180707-500_7183.jpg
  • Shoal of Smallmouth grunts (Haemulon chrysargyreum) on coral reef off Nassau, Bahamas.
    20170710NAS182.jpg
  • A seagrass ghost goby (Pleurosicya bilobata) uses transparent skin to blend in to a seagrass blade in Indonesia.
    Goby on Seagrass Blade
  • Juvenile Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) settle in the shallows, often taking refuge in patch reefs. At this size they are still highly vulnerable to predation. Currently (2019), the minimum size limit for harvesting Nassau grouper in The Bahamas is three pounds (approx. 17” length), yet recent science indicates that they are not sexually mature before they weigh at least five pounds.
    Shelter
  • A juvenile Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) takes shelter in a red sponge colony. Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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  • A tiny blenny pokes his head out from the seabed.
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  • A scalyhead sculpin (Artedius harringtoni) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210321-500_5567.jpg
  • Grass squid (Pickfordiateuthis pulchella) near Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170327HI114.jpg
  • This inland pond (sometimes called a blue hole) formed when water levels were higher and reefs build up. As The water lowered the tunnels in the reef ended up inland from the sea. This blue hole is connected to the ocean underground through small tunnels, far too small for any diver. The passages also do not appear to transfer marine life either as what is found in here is far different from what is found in the ocean.
    BlueHoleStory01.jpg
  • A critically endangered Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) in a small cenote in Zapata, Cuba. As ocean's rise due to climate change American crocodiles' territory in Cuba is expanding and that of the swamp-living Cuban crocodile is shrinking. The two species are coming into contact more frequently and interbreeding and hybrid species are common. With only about 4000 individual Cuban crocs left in small parts of Cuba, it is likely the Cuban crocodile will go extinct soon, being absorbed by the American crocodile, without ongoing human intervention.
    Habitat
  • In Cuba's Gardens of the Queen, a marine protected area, American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) feed among the seagrass and mangroves on fish and small mammals called hutia. The two habitats are connected and needed for life at all levels from small grazing animals all the way to top predators.
    Up The Food Web.jpg
  • Even after seagrass blades die they are still contributing to the ecosystem, here providing cover for a small blenny.
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  • 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
  • A small fish (species unknown) drifts in a chain of pelagic tunicates in the Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean.
    20190731-500_4633.jpg
  • A small restaurant in West End, Grand Bahama specializes in pickled conch.
    20180724-501_8359.jpg
  • The silhouette of a black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) wading in a small pond in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
    20200827-501_9920.jpg
  • Umbrella jelly or aggregating jellyfish (Eutonina indicans) eating a small, unidentified, fish off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210503-500_6842.jpg
  • A small coral reef scene including a pair of masked butterflyfish (Chaetodon semilarvatus) and a coral hind (Cephalopholis miniata) in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt
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  • Small fishing boats showing signs of their age sit unused during the COVID-19 pandemic on Harbour Island, Bahamas
    20200406-DSC_2149.jpg
  • A tasseled scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) waits for prey in a small coral cave off Alor, Indonesia.
    20180930-500_5305e.jpg
  • A small aggregation of queen conch (Lobatus gigas) off Cat Island, Bahamas
    2016_05_05_Cat_snorkel112.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
  • A small fish (species unknown) drifts in a chain of pelagic tunicates in the Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean.
    20190731-500_4633.jpg
  • On small islands waste management can be a challenge. Garbage, especially plastic, is blown into the sea and becomes toxic to fish, birds and other wildlife. Image made on Harbour Island, Bahamas.
    20170427HI0076.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.
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  • 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.
    BahamasConchFishery19.jpg
  • Men at a construction site in a mangrove area. The site will become a restaurant, night club and small hotel.
    LemonsAndMangroves06.jpg
  • The silhouettes of a black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) wading in a small pond at sunrise in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
    20200827-501_9933.jpg
  • Commercial fisherman Andres Maldonado shows off a juvenile queen conch (Lobatus gigas) off Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The conch was too small to keep so he set it back on the seabed after the image was made. Andres noticed drastic and obvious declines in fish numbers and habitat availbale after Hurricane Maria in 2017 which put many other commercial fisherman out of business. Queen conch, once his main catch, were completely wiped out at depths under 70 feet. In 2020, three years after the storms, he is starting to find the odd juvenile, but he must rely on other species to make a living. Image release available.
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  • A small aggreggation of queen conch (Lobatus gigas) off Cat Island, Bahamas
    2016_05_05_Cat_snorkel112.jpg
  • A small boat fishes for sardines (Clupeinae) off Moalboal, Philippines
    20181020-500_0457.jpg
  • Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) in eating small fish, Bahamas.
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  • A small (1cm) unidentified fish hiding inside a pelagic tunicate at 80 feet at night in the Sargasso Sea. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza during its expedition to the Sargasso Sea, a unique region in the North Atlantic Ocean that is home to a diverse array of marine life, including loggerhead and green sea turtles.  The journey will see Greenpeace and University of Florida researchers team up to study the impact of plastics and microplastics on marine life and the importance that the Sargasso’s drifting Sargassum seaweed habitat has for the development of juvenile sea turtles.
    20190803-500_5519.jpg
  • A mural is painted on the side of a small grocery store on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas depicting how the fait 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.
    2015_12_7HI296.jpg
  • 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.
    Invasive Lionfish003.jpg
  • Umbrella jelly or aggregating jellyfish (Eutonina indicans) eating a small, unidentified, fish off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210503-500_6926.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1853.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_2030.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_2064.jpg
  • A mural is painted on the side of a small grocery store on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas depicting how the fait of the Bahamian fishery is tied closely to that of the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans). An island elder looks to the past as a healthy fishery becomes embattled.
    2015_12_7HI296.jpg
  • A small mangrove lined creek is home for young lemon sharks.
    Creek
  • A mural is painted on the side of a small grocery store on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas depicting how the fait 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.
    Wall Art
  • 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.
    Invasive Lionfish009.jpg
  • Young men use a make-shift net to catch small fish for food in a seagrass bed at low tide in Bali, Indonesia.
    20180912-501_9385.jpg
  • A small squid (possibly grass squid, Pickfordiateuthis pulchella) portrait in The Bahamas.
    2016_03_14_HI560.jpg
  • Fisherman in West End, Grand Bahama use fish to settle a small debt near a conch midden (pile of shells).
    Worth
  • Young men use a potato sack as a make-shift net to catch any small fish or crustaceans living among the rocks and seagrass beds off Bali, Indonesia.
    20180912-501_9385.jpg
  • The invasion is so intense a single dive can yield dozens of lionfish even with a small spear. In the Bahamas spearing while on SCUBA is prohibited, but a special exemption was made for lionfish.
    2016_06_18Freeport054.jpg
  • Life on a small scale thrives on individual seagrass blades. Here, colonies of Electra posidoniae (the chain link things) and Lichenopora radiata (the white things) bryozoans on a Posidonia oceanica seagrass blade. If you include this level of organism in the equation, seagrass rivals rain forests in biodiversity.
    Life on a Single Blade.jpg
  • Researchers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) implant a transmitter in a small cod to track their movements over time.
    20190513-501_0901sm.jpg
  • 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.
    2014_04_17_HI032.jpg
  • Conch are kept alive in a small enclosure to ensure they stay fresh until they are chopped up for conch salad.
    BahamasConchFishery16.jpg
  • Other small sharks may take refuge in the mangroves. Although nurse shark pups often spend their young years hidden deep in reefs, mangroves are a great alternative.
    2013_mar19_Bimini207.jpg
  • Young men use a potato sack as a make-shift net to catch any small fish or crustaceans living among the rocks and seagrass beds off Bali, Indonesia.
    20180912-501_9377.jpg
  • During the Green Turtle Cay Lionfish Derby there is a prize for the smallest fish and it is sought after. These tiny fish, about the size of a quarter, are better caught in small hand-nets.
    2016_06_25GTCLionfishDerby900.jpg
  • Lionfish are most easily found around shipwrecks or human-made debris. Here one is pulled out of a small shipwreck off Freeport, Grand Bahama.
    2016_06_18Freeport006.jpg
  • Lionfish are ambush predators, staying in one spot and waiting for fish to swim by. When a fish small enough to fit in their mouth they inhale the prey in a split second.
    2016_06_29HILionfish442.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
  • Small, white, curious octopus on a muck dive in Papua New Guinea
    2015_05_04_PNGD2_534.jpg
  • A small fish hitching a ride in a salp at 60 feet over 13,000 feet during a blackwater dive in the Sargasso Sea.
    20190731-500_4633.jpg
  • A male southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) shoots water out of his mouth while being turned upside down by researchers getting a small tissue sample for genetic analysis in The Bahamas.
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  • Small holes on some reefs prove to be packed with lionfish during the day, while other reefs are empty.
    20170501HI133.jpg
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