Another predawn intertidal trip for the
Singapore Marine Fishes Expedition 2019! This time, we sample East Coast Park where seagrasses have settled at the mouth of a canal and nearby seawalls also have corals growing on them.
We encounter an astounding variety of fishes!
Lush seagrasses have settled at the mouth of this artificial canal, marked by a line of blue drums.
There are lots of Tape seagrasses here with long leaf blades!
As Kelvin pulls out the 30m net, he holds up a Tape seagrass blade to show how long it is! Wow. We seem to be getting better at using the net and got a lot of fishes as well as many shrimps. We collected the fishes and returned all the other animals into the sea.
Our second time laying the 30m net, under planes flying from one of the world's busiest airports.
There's lots of washing up to do after the trip. And many other errands such as buying lunch for everyone.
When we stopped by the lab after washing up, they were already processing what we sampled this morning. Wow, we did find an amazing variety of fishes in just the two short netting efforts at this artificial shore!
Bee Yan took this great photo of our finds.
The fishes look amazing after careful washing and labelling.
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| Photo by Rene Ong |
Among our special finds this morning, this young lady bravely got a sample of the dreaded Mr Stonefish!
Lots of work go into processing all the samples.
Hey! The dive team have just arrived after their sampling trip today!
The dive team have a look at our samples. Are they impressed with our finds!
Besides diving and intertidal sampling, the angling team is also out sampling today. Will include updates on their encounters later.
Tomorrow, another early morning survey, this time at Chek Jawa. Bracing for more awesome finds!
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Singapore Marine Fishes Expedition 2019 with daily and other updates are
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