Flatfishes are important components of benthic communities and support small-scale fisheries that sustain livelihoods in the southwestern Indian Ocean. However, limited data on their diversity and distribution hinder effective management and conservation, especially under growing threats from destructive fishing and climate change. To address this, 134 flatfish specimens from the Tanzanian coast were analyzed. Specimens were i...

Seagrass are important marine habitats that function as nursery grounds for juvenile fish. Human activities and other natural factors have contributed to their decline, and this has compromised their role as nurseries, specifically in non-continuous patchy seagrass beds. In this study, juvenile fish abundance from tropical seagrass beds of Watamu were examined, while testing the hypothesis that seagrass cover and seasonality i...