Field Trips

This week Lauren visited the Mangrove site in Anilao. A mud crab project is in progress, meaning that a pen was built for juvenile mud crabs to grow up in. This pen is trenches dug out between mangrove trees. In the pictures you can see the trenches dug out, the water height chances with the level of the tide. The crabs were moved to another site because the water was beginning to become to acidic (were not sure why this happened). Fishermen dig out the crabs and tie their claws together. This is done so each of the crabs can be measured and weighed before moving to the new pen. Hopefully the crabs will be happy in their new home. Let's hope that they don't go into shock from the new atmosphere:)


Alan has been working youth camps and is sweaty and tired.