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Welcome to Visayan Sea Watch!

The Visayan Sea Watch aims to establish an accurate, reliable and up to date baseline scientific data for ecological, fishing and meteorological data of the Visayan Sea waters for year 2021-2022. This 1-year comprehensive scientific data may serve as base facts for several government utilities like in policy development for various fisheries management measures in the Visayan Sea waters and vicinities, educational, training, and future researches. These collected data may also archived and later serve as historical references repository for future studies.

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WATER PARAMETERS

After air, water is the second most critical component for life to exist. As a result, the scientific literature has written extensively about water quality. Water quality is most frequently defined as "the physical, chemical, and biological qualities of water." The condition of the water in relation to the needs of one or more biotic species and/or to any human need or purpose is referred to as its quality.

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PHYTOPLANKTON

The diversity of species affects how well an ecosystem functions. The impacts of biodiversity on environmental processes are favorable, according to theoretical, experimental, and field investigations. This connection, however, might vary between trophic levels as well as between taxonomic and functional diversity components. Very little research has been done on these interactions in planktonic communities of coastal upwelling systems.

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NUTRIENT

It may be argued that some nutrients are never a limiting factor for plant growth in the sea because seawater contains sufficient amounts of particular plant nutrients. These include substances like water itself, carbon dioxide, and the elements and compounds. Generally speaking, it is the concentration of certain nutrients and a number of organic substances (such as vitamins), that limit plant growth, either due to their low concentration or because they are not available for algal metabolism.

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WIND

Ocean habitats are fundamentally impacted by wind. Physical processes, including as upwelling and current development, are driven by wind through Ekman transport. The chemistry and biology of different marine habitats are impacted in a cascade manner by these physical processes.

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