Field research updates from SNRE master’s and doctoral students
All promise is debt
Posted by Mariana Velez in Environmental Policy and Planning on 07 16th, 2011 | no responses
I believe I promised a few pictures….
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- At the entrance of the Reserve… first mosquito bite
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- Arriving at Maria Elena
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- Preparing for the first catch of the season
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- Cleaning the bay from the lionfish plague
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- Smaller than 13.5 cm? Back into the water!
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- A little fellow shed its shell
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- Crab anyone?
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- Little water on the way…
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- Helping to sort the lobster
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- Towards deeper diving in the reef
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- Adjusting the lazo
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- “Bonanza”… good weather for fishing
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- That became my present… don’t worry it doesn’t grow much more
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- A few tails instead of live ones
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- Amongst the fishers
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- They pulled it up to show me. The sea floor had a tapestry of them
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- Doña Rosa, who prefers no other place in the world to Maria Elena
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- Window view in Maria Elena
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- Need water to shower?
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- At Maria Elena’s dock
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- Mr. Reyes Sulub and his wife, after an interview with him
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- Keeping count as lobster is loaded on the truck to Merida
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- Separating the tails by gender
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- Little Renata accompanies me during my note transcription
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- Feasting like kings
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- To my right, the only lady fisher in the two communites, Mrs. Martha Gongora
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- The fisher apprentices in Punta Herrero
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- Looking for the “casitas cubanas”
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- Miguel Ramirez after and interview with him
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- Punta Herrero
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- Sardines. Punta Herrero is the only place in the reserve where they still use nets
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- Dinner
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- The fish traps
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- After the interviews with Javier and Saul
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- Mr. Baltazar Hoil, Secretary of the Azcorra Cooperative, and his son Enrique
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- Everyone wants some fish
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- After my 53rd interview before leaving the Bay of the Holy Spirit
