Hiya everyone!
This morning started slower than usual as we had a late night out ringing. Last night Jessie, Tara and I went up to North Light earlier than the rest of the conservation team to have a beautiful sunset swim! The water was crystal clear and the sun sunk beautifully into the ocean as Razorbill calls soundtracked our swim.
Despite our late night, this morning Tara, Jessie and I were soon wide awake due to the pungent smell of defrosted Pollock. We spent the morning preparing to deploy our BRUV (baited remote underwater video), starting with the task of preparing bait. Cutting and portioning fish is a messy job on a good day, but the intense heat today made it even more so!
We deployed the BRUV at Devils Kitchen today, it was high tide, so we floated the BRUV out on a kayak and pushed it along in the water. Once we picked a spot we dropped it down and left it for an hour. I then had to head up for a tavern shift, but Simon kindly stepped in to help with the retrieval, and it sounded like a proper operation hauling it up between two kayaks!
Unfortunately, there isn’t very much to see on the footage, other than the kelp swaying, but we did have a couple of passing jellyfish including some Blue Jellyfish. We are working on improving our deployment method, we will be shortening the BRUV, so it is closer to the seabed, trying different locations and bait types.
