Trained SCUBA divers to monitor fish and invertebrates

SeaDoc Society has helped train hundreds of recreational SCUBA divers to collect data that are now supporting abalone, rockfish, and sea star recovery efforts in the Salish Sea. As of 2018, we have worked with Reef Environmental Education Foundation to train volunteer SCUBA divers, who have completed more than 18,000 surveys in Washington and 6,000 surveys in British Columbia.

• REEF.org

• Free fish and invertebrate ID classes gets SCUBA divers involved in marine conservation

• Volunteer fish and invertebrate surveys: what makes recreational SCUBA divers want to participate?

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