French Polynesia ... Spawning Groupers & Hungry Sharks
With Ocean Geographic & photoprapher Michale AW ... June 9 - 19, 2019
Camouflage Groupers come together in a colossal aggregation in the south pass of Fakarava, an atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynseia, to spawn on the day of the full moon. With numbers in some years exceeding 20,000 groupers, biologists believe it to be our ocean biggest known aggregation of large reef fish. In 2014, Laurent Ballesta and his team recorded over 700 sharks feasting into the spawning sessions. This phenomenon in the blue pristine waters of the South Pacific is found nowhere else in the world.
