Nassau Grouper

Photo: Bernat Garrigós · © all rights reserved

Nassau grouper — critically endangered across much of their Atlantic range — maintain a resident population around the Constellation and Montana sites where no-take protections apply within Bermuda's marine protected area network. These solitary ambush predators use the wreck superstructure as cover while hunting smaller fish and octopus moving between the two wreck sites across the sandy corridor. Their presence here is a direct conservation success story; Bermuda implemented grouper protections earlier than most Caribbean nations.