Empowering the next generations is key to creating decision-makers who care for the sea. To date, we have trained over 460 primary, high-school and university students in 1-4-day hands-on field courses. The training included topics on fisheries-independent megafauna monitoring techniques for sharks, rays, and turtles. The longer field courses included longline preparation, deployment, animal handling, in-water transects, abundance estimation work, size estimation, baited remote underwater video set-up and deployment, data collection, and basic analytical techniques. Several of the students have gone on to work in the marine field.
Cracking the Mystery of Shark and Ray Egg Cases
In coastal waters, mysterious pouches sometimes wash ashore, tangled in seaweed or nestled in rocky tide pools. They’re not trash, nor seaweed pods, but the
