Spawning Aggregations - Natural Numbers EP 05
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Spawning aggregations are massive gatherings of fish for breeding, a behavior shared by many species across the globe in many different habitats. Spawning aggregations support some of the most productive fisheries: from multibillion-dollar industries to subsistence cultures, yet we are only beginning to understand their value for marine ecosystems and food security, and their vulnerability. In the upper Gulf of California, in Mexico, a large marine fish known as Gulf Corvina offers an insight into the importance of this behavior.
With support from
The Walton Family Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
In collaboration with
Marine Science Institute, University of Texas
Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (SCRFA)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Production
Brad Erisman
Octavio Aburto
Direction
Jaime Rojo
Script
Brad Erisman
Exequiel Ezcurra
Octavio Aburto
Jaime Rojo
Photography and video
Alfredo Barroso
Paul Collins
Richard Barnden
Tania Escobar
Lee & Phil Burghard / Wild Shutter Imaging
Eric Clua / SCFRA
Biopixel.tv
DPS / Shutterstock
VideoFort / Shutterstock
Nimrod Amitai / Shutterstock
Video editing
Jaime Rojo
Motion graphics
Juli Martínez
Music and FX
Ernesto Paredano
Voice over
Exequiel Ezcurra
Communications and social media
Isaac Bazán / Romboh
Andrea Bizberg
Web design
Yin Lai Trinidad, Estudio Setenta y Ocho
Aknowledgements
Coral Reef Research Foundation
The Koror State Government, Palau
University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences
Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson
Martin Russell
Will Heyman
Catalina López
Isaí Dominguez, CONABIO
Ana Dominguez