Over the past two years, the foundation has supported public engagement in science through the distribution of more than 50 remotely operated underwater robots created by Berkeley-based startup OpenROV. Comunidad and Biodiversidad, a Mexican conservation group, recently used an ROV to help study Nassau grouper fish spawning in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in the Caribbean. The ultimately goal of the project was to highlight the importance of not fishing during spawning periods, to protect the fish population.
You can read more about these efforts and how the ROV was used in a Medium post by Andrew David Thaler: Building New Marine Protected Areas with Fishermen and Underwater Drones.
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