Fish numbers and sizes are increasing at the Department of Conservation marine reserve at Mayor Island.
Underwater monitoring conducted by DOC staff in conjunction with the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Marine Studies Department has revealed the change.
A polytechnic student deploys a transect line as part of the fish population monitoring process at Mayor Island.
People are invited to learn about the reserve and this development at a public presentation on March 6.
This forms part of the region's scheduled activities for DOC's nationwide SeaWeek celebrations.
The Mayor Island presentation is in the ground floor lecture theatre, DT104, at the Bongard Centre on Cameron Road on Tuesday, March 6, at 6.30pm.
1 comment
Manipulation of data
Posted on 22-02-2012 14:35 | By dribbles
I understand that for many years there was no statistical change observed in the fish populations so DOC and the Polytech just changed their survey methodology to come up with the results they wanted to prove that the marine reserve is justified.
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