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The first week of training of the extension workers of the project Kike da Mungu/BAF has just finished! Twice a week, they will be working with the fishers during the landings to collect information about their fishing activities -including catch and fishing effort- using the smartphone app ODK. This activity will happen in 10 communities of southern São Tomé. We visited the ten communities of the project, where the extension workers, who are from the communities themselves, presented the activity to the fishers. It's been great getting to know the communities in the south of São Tomé! 
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We are still analysing the BRUV videos from the last sampling round in december and some cool footages are coming out! Check out this hungry snapper trying to eat the bait cage! I was interviewed on March 1, 2019 to talk about the biodiversity monitoring currently being done in Príncipe Island using Baited Remote Underwater Videos. You can listen to the whole interview here! Originally published in omaliprincipeen.weebly.com On Saturday, 9th of March we had the last BRUV sampling day of the project! Since April 2018, 260 hours of video have been recorded over 28 days of field work. We have already identified over 95 species in the cameras, including sharks and rays. For the next two months we will finish analysing all the videos to understand the distribution of fish species around the island, so as to identify priority areas for conservation and management. BRUV sampling will continue for the next years both in São Tomé and Principe!  Shark attack! Sometimes losing your equipment is completely worth it! We are currently analysing the videos of December's sampling round. BRUV surveys are being used in Principe Island as part of the project Omali Vida Nón to understand the spatial patterns of fish distribution and inform managers. Originally published in omaliprincipeen.weebly.com The second BRUV sampling round has already started! This December we will be dropping cameras in 60 sampling points around the island, plus three more cameras in a new site: Tinhosas Islets! Tinhosas are located 20 km south of Principe, and host one of the biggest populations of nesting seabirds in the Gulf of Guinea. Fishers use this area, so it is important to assess its biodiversity. We are looking forward to analysing the videos: we have already found species that are not present in Principe island!  BRUV video of the week! It is always fun to find moray eels like this Enelychore nigricans in the BRUV surveys. We are currently analysing the videos recorded in the last sampling round of Omali Vida Nón's BRUV surveys!. We are using Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs) around Principe Island (São Tomé and Príncipe) to understand the spatial patterns of fish distribution and inform management. This octopus' meal got a bit dramatic by the end (turn the volume on!). We have started analysing the videos recorded in the last sampling round of Omali Vida Nón's BRUV surveys! We are using Baited Remote Underwater Video around Principe Island (São Tomé and Principe) to understand the spatial patterns of fish distribution and inform management. Originally published in omaliprincipeen.weebly.com, available here. From July 16 to August 10 we completed the first round of BRUV surveys! BRUVs (Baited Remote Underwater Video surveys) are a non-invasive methodology used to record fish presence, relative abundance and behaviour. Sixty sampling points, randomly selected, were surveyed and over 90 hours of videos have been recorded. This constitutes the first successful sampling round of a monitoring strategy that will continue over the next five years. We are looking forward to start analysing the videos! Over the next months we will be watching the videos and recording species’ presence and abundance using the MaxN metric (maximum number of individuals per frame). This information will be used to design a potential network of Marine Protected Areas. We already got some spectacular footages and they will be available online soon!  How to annoy barracudas using Baited Remote Underwater Video. This one popped in after an hour of no fish at all, so it made me especially happy. |