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A group of citizen scientist divers known as the Sirenas de Natividad was founded in 2019; this all-women team is made up of five homemakers, all wives and daughters of fishers, who are monitoring fishery resources and the volunteer-run marine reserves. 🫧🧜🏻‍♀️🪸 Read more about these amazing "mermaids":

‘Mermaids’ dive to study and protect Mexican fishing grounds
‘Mermaids’ dive to study and protect Mexican fishing grounds

Esmeralda Albañez used to be afraid of the sea. Just thinking about it would conjure up images of darkness, of how deep and unknown it was to her. Coming from a family of fishers and having grown up o...

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