Sup Guys, while i was just surfing the net i stumbled accross this great story and research by
a marine scientists into Great Barrier Reef fish populations remind us of the need to protect the tiny creatures in a vast ocean.. so i taught i share it with you my readers... enjoy please.
Back when Bill Clinton was the president of the United
States, UTS professor David Booth and his wife Gigi Beretta started an
extraordinary experiment that demonstrates the ocean is as small as it
is vast.
In 1999, Booth, who is the president of the Australian Coral
Reef Society, and Beretta, who trained as a marine scientist in the
Caribbean, caught and tagged 532 juvenile lemon damsel fish in the
lagoon of One Tree Island off Gladstone in Queensland, and a further 322
in the waters of Lizard Island off Cape York.
They are small but beautiful animals – vivid yellow and
found throughout the Great Barrier Reef. Yellow damsels are so
spectacular that they are a favourite with the aquarium industry.
Each of the tiny young fish caught by Booth and Beretta was
tagged with an elastic polymer that showed up as a dark smudge under
their skin. After tagging they were released back onto the patch of reef
where they would spend their entire lives.
“We have never found them more than two metres from their home base,” said Booth. “They live in a very restricted world.”