Ōkahu Bay 6 months monitoring

Peter Miles - Volunteer

21:44 on 25 August, 2022

Ōkahu Bay 6-month monitoring

Ōkahu Bay 6-month monitoring

Weather delayed our 6-month monitoring of Ōkahu Bay, but results now out… Beginning to see some difference in survival of the kūtai on shell (S1..S3) 😀 vs, those on bare sediment (M1..M3) 😫. A few small 11-arm starfish moving in but the water was clearer this time.

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