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Monitoring juvenile fish species in Akumal along a transect line
by Lucy Gallagher
In July of this year, CEA initiated a juvenile fish survey project, as part of a regional effort to monitor the recruitment of fish, coral and lobsters on the Mesoamerican Reef System. This monitoring effort forms part of an innovative global initiative, the Coral Reef Targeted Research Project (CRTR Project), which has been established to address fundamental information gaps in our understanding of coral reef ecosystems, so that management options and policy interventions can be strengthened globally.
The CRTR Project has selected four regional nodes that reflect the distribution of coral reefs throughout the world. The nodes represent the three major coral reef regions of the world: the western Pacific (which is the center of coral reef biodiversity); the Indian Ocean (which has suffered extensively from recent episodes of coral bleaching associated with climate change); and the western Atlantic (whose reefs are substantially different from Pacific and Indian Ocean reefs). For more information on the CRTR Project, click here.
Within the CRTR Project in Mesoamerica, Akumal was selected as one of the 11 “core sites” in the region, among sites in México, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. CEA is proud to be a partner in this project and has been selected to conduct the scientific monitoring of Akumal’s reefs in this global initiative.
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