A rare fish cluster was found along the coast of Santa Catarina in Brazil

For the first time this year, the research team of the Brazil Dusky Grouper Project (PMB) recorded a reproductive aggregation of groupers in São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina. The visual census, in which divers count these fish underwater, saw 38 specimens of the species, something that is currently considered rare on the Brazilian coast. a critically endangered species. The general manager of the project, Maíra Borgonha, stressed that this “is a rare event, which happens on a few moons of the year, in few places on the Brazilian coast”. ALSO READ: Why 100 birds fell dead from the sky in Mexico Team of the Meros do Brasil Project found a reproductive grouping of the species, in Santa Catarina (Photo: Athila Bertoncini Andrade) Project researcher Leonardo Bueno, PhD in environmental oceanography, says that seeing and monitoring aggregations with dozens of groupers in Brazil is essential for the recovery work of the species. He highlighted, however, in an interview with Agência ...