2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is the best way to reintroduce a marine animal back to its natural habitat?

2. The best way to reintroduce an animal would be to just throw it back into its natural habitat.

3. In the case of reintroducing grunion we just release them to the ocean very easily. In my own experience in reintroducing pipefish we had just released them down at the boat docks into  seaweed and they were fine. This is in fact the way that we introduce many of the animals in the aquatic nursery.

4. The sources that helped me come to this answer was a textbook chapter about the physiology of fish and microorganisms and my third interview in which my interviewee (Chris Bautista) said that this was in fact a feasible way of reintroducing animals.

5. I plan to study behavior and hunting patterns to see how much of an impact being in captivity has on their instincts.