“We’re gonna need a better BRUV”
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“Wait, WAIT…WHAT WAS THAT?… go back… go back…!”. This is a familiar cry when we are reviewing footage from our underwater camera traps. Through this sneaky peep show of sorts we have made countless discoveries of big fish and other marine wildlife and their preferred habitats. And this work has been critical to understand the […]
How are our fish doing? Monitoring can help answer the question
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Significant gaps of information exist globally on sharks and rays, collectively known as elasmobranchs, and this is proving a challenge to conservation efforts. The MesoAmerican Reef region (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras) is no exception. Honduras is one of 15 countries worldwide that declared its waters a “shark sanctuary”, which bans shark fishing and […]
The Deep: A new frontier for shark science
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Standing on the veranda of our Belize based office, we can readily see the Belize Barrier Reef with its jagged coral reef crest, and beyond this line of coral and waves, the open sea. What many people don’t realize is that the reef shelf drops rapidly from a shallow 15 meters to over 1,000 m […]
Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader
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Building skill sets and knowledge and then applying them is what moving conservation forward is all about. Gabriela Ochoa, affectionately known by all as Gaby, is an enthusiastic conservationist focusing on sharks, rays and turtles and our National Coordinator for Honduras who has been keen to build her professional skills. After much finger-gnawing, she received the […]
Networking fishers across ocean basins
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When Evan Cuevas grew up in the small un-electrified village of Monkey River in southern Belize, he never dreamt that he would become a trainer in good fishing practices. But that is exactly the journey this young lobster fisher embarked on earlier this year when he travelled half way around the world to the island […]
Networking fishers across ocean basins
![](https://maralliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DSC01687-1-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg)
When Evan Cuevas grew up in the small un-electrified village of Monkey River in southern Belize, he never dreamt that he would become a trainer in good fishing practices. But that is exactly the journey this young lobster fisher embarked on earlier this year when he travelled half way around the world to the island […]