Lucas Vahlas' Blog

Category: marine reserve

  • GROUPERS AT EL HIERRO (canary islands, spain) 

    What is a GROUPER ?  Groupers usually live in warm seas. They are heavy bodied, are very wide, have very large mouths, huge pectoral fins and can grow really big : (up to 2.5m and 450kg for the goliath groupers that are the biggest ones in our oceans). Groupers are all but made for distance…

  • Marine reserve of El Hierro

    Before starting to talk about technical things, let’s just talk about where is El Hierro… Where is EL HIERRO?  El Hierro is a small spanish island situated in the Atlantic ocean near Occidental Sahara. It is the smallest island of all the Canary islands with a surface of only 268.71 km², and is the southest…