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Filming begins with a clapperboard

Just like filming in Hollywood, the Coral Reef/Hardbottom Monitoring Project films a clapperboard before videotaping a transect. The clapperboard contains such information as: date, location and who is behind the camera.


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Scientists can determine the age of a fish by counting growth rings, similar to growth rings of a tree, on otoliths, the “inner ear bones” of fish.

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