{"id":2869,"date":"2024-03-22T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=2869"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:06:01","slug":"state-of-the-reef-mar-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/observations-ii\/vauxhall-reef-environs-2024\/state-of-the-reef-mar-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish on Vauxhall Reef Mar 22, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis page is a sub-page of Vauxhall Reef & Environs 2024.<\/strong><\/a><\/small>
\nVauxhall Reef & Environs 2024<\/strong>\u00a0is a sub-page of ObsII<\/a> a top-level page on the website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds<\/a> (www.versicolor.ca\/barbados).
\nGo to ObsII<\/a> to view a list of all pages and subpages under ObsII<\/small><\/p>\n

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Videos taken on March 22, 2024 as I crossed the Reef Flat, the Reef Crest & Seaward Slope zones of Vauxhall Reef provide a 0ne-time snapshot of what’s there and readily visible\u00a0 fish-wise. (Zones are those\u00a0 defined by Lewis, 1960, except that the Reef Flat includes also Lewis’s Diploria-Palythoa zone.)<\/p>\n

The Vauxhall Reef\u00a0 is a moderately healthy reef, in contrast to most of the fringing reefs in the MPA which are highly degraded with very low living coral cover. (See Video Transects of Vauxhall & 2 Degraded Fringing Reefs<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Approx.\u00a0 Route<\/p><\/div>\n

About the Vauxhall Fish Videos<\/strong>
\n– There are 3 separate videos on the Vauxhall Reef representing respectively the Reef Flat, Reef Crest and Seaward Slope zones.
\n– Video speed of the videos were reduced (circa 50%)
\n– Videos were taken 10:15 am (begin first clip) to 10:52 am (end last clip)
\n– I selected areas en route<\/em> with some aggregation of fish but I did not deviate from the route to look for them.
\n– Fish density & diversity was more or less typical of last several months; one can see more fish at feeding times (early or late in day), or at certain places (close to breaking waves). Notably missing compared to last year: Filefish, however I have noted their absence in a particular year before.<\/p>\n

There are two versions of each video:<\/em>
\n– A YouTube version<\/strong>: fast loading but poorer quality
\n– A versicolor.ca version<\/strong>: slower loading but original quality retained
\nThe version makes a difference, e.g.\u00a0 if you wish to ID fish or corals, def. view the Higher Quality version<\/p>\n

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Fish on Vauxhall Reef:\u00a0Reef Flat<\/strong>
(3 separate video clips):
On YouTube<\/a> (Lower Quality)
On versicolor.ca<\/a> (Higher Quality)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n

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Fish on Vauxhall Reef: Reef Crest<\/strong>
(5 separate video clips)
On YouTube<\/a> (Lower quality)
On versicolor.ca<\/a> (Higher Quality)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Fish on Vauxhall Reef:<\/strong> Seaward Slope<\/strong>
(6 separate video clips)
On YouTube<\/a> (Lower quality)
On versicolor.ca<\/a> (Higher Quality)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Also view these subpages:<\/p>\n

– Fishing Expedition 1<\/strong><\/a> and Fishing Expedition 2<\/a><\/strong>
\n– Fishing Regulations & my impressions of their impact<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAVIGATION This page is a sub-page of Vauxhall Reef & Environs 2024. Vauxhall Reef & Environs 2024\u00a0is a sub-page of ObsII a top-level page on the website Barbados Fringing Reefs and Seagrass Beds (www.versicolor.ca\/barbados). Go to ObsII to view a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2351,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":95,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2869\/revisions\/5019"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}