Nature Seychelles project keeps "tags" on fish
The Rabbit fish (Kordonyen blanc) that you find on your plate can swim fantastic distances. This was one of the delightful anecdotes that our fish researcher shared with us recently as we chatted about her project. "A Rabbit fish leaves Cousin Island and swims 3 km during the full moon to a spawning site," Tove says as she starts doing her maths. "It weighs an average of 300 grams, so it’s the equivalent of a normal-sized human swimming 600 km. That's pretty far; it's one third of the distance from the Seychelles to Tanzania!" she jokes.Tove is looking at information she has gathered under a Nature Seychelles' project that is investigating the habitats and migratory movements of commercially valuable fish species within and outside the Cousin Island Marine Protected Area (MPA).