The message on the sails translates as "Don't beach seine, spear fish"

By Jessie Scurfield. The festival of Vezo Aho was the culmination of a year long social marketing project which uses marketing principles to communicate the conservation/ ecological problems associated with some of the fishing methods used by Vezo. The use ...Read More

Golden Pirogue - Blue Ventures

The livelihood of the local Vezo people is completely dependent on the sea.  This is, after all, why we are here: we are providing the science to help the Vezo understand how make the most of what their sea has ...Read More

Anemone

4am. I manage to grab my alarm  before it goes off – my hut mate gets cranky enough when I’m up at 7 – and stumble around a bit, looking for rash vests and bits of my camera, wishing I’d kept a ...Read More

View from Nosy Cao, the classroom

I am writing this blog entry from inside our classroom Nosy Cao, sitting at the desk below the window which opens onto a view of Half Moon Beach.  From this angle, I can observe at least seven distinguishable shades of ...Read More

As this is my first blog I had better introduce myself. My name is Ben, or rather after sneaking through Manchester medical school with a large helping of lady luck, Dr Ben. I have now been at Blue Ventures ...Read More