After Natalie Prinz went back to the Cook Islands in October to present the results of her recent Masters Project “To feed or not to feed” to the local community, the Cook Island News now published a report about Natalie’s study.
From 2-6 October, members of the REPICORE team had the opportunity to present their work at the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, which was organized this year in Papeete/Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, by the French CRIOBE. The conference, the largest of its kind, brought together nearly 500 participants from …
Establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is a common strategy to conserve marine ecosystem and to enhance the recovery of degraded systems. Large MPAs have been shown to be very effective, while the effectiveness of small MPAs (here <1km²) is still discussed. Small MPAs might not be sufficient in size to …
By Natalie Prinz. After a sudden occurrence of dead reef fish in the Aitutaki Lagoon, reports of dead fish sightings were summarised and correlated to tide data, rain data and water quality measurements. There was no obvious cause to the death of the fish. Due to the lack of …
By Natalie Prinz, ISATEC student at the University of Bremen and the ZMT. A 18km2 small near-atoll named Aitutaki was “home” from October 2016 till March 2017, one of 15 islands of the self-governing island country, the Cook Islands. The island is known for its 50km2 large, very shallow (deepest …
