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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Manus Island BDM Survey

WE started the Sea cucumber survey in Manus from the 8th to the 15th of June 2013. We started at Loniu then make our way to Ndilo. After completing Ndilo, we went to Andra and over night at ponam Island. Ndilo, Andra and Ponam had good numbers of Surf Redfish -Actinipyga mauritina were recorded on the reef crests. The next morning we went on to Kali then Bipi.After Bipi we overnight at Mbuke and moved on to Tawi and Pere before overnight again at Mbunai. WE my group cam to town to refill, the other two teams did Mbunai before we all moved on to Baluan. After completing Baluan, we slept over at Rambutso. Early the net morning, we  surveyed the reefs and seagrass beds of Rabutso before we completed the survey for Manus province.

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