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contributes to the success of Long Island             Reef Butterflyfish, Blue  Angelfish,
            farmers, who are usually able to generate             Juvenile  Blue Angelfish, Rock Beauty,
            enough excess produce to sell their fruits            Gray Angelfish, Juvenile Gray Angelfish,
            and vegetables throughout the Bahamas.                Queen      Angelfish,     Juvenile     Queen

            Tourists opportunities include sailing,               Angelfish, French  Angelfish, Juvenile
            fishing,    scuba      diving,    freediving,         French Angelfish, Yellowfin Damselfish,
            snorkeling and relaxing on beaches. Cape              Porupinefish, Jawfish, Horse-Eye Jack,
            Santa Maria Beach, located at Stella                  Sea     Anemone,        Tomtate,      Spotted
            Maris, is frequently ranked as one of the             Scorpionfish, Spiny Lobster, Sand
            most beautiful beaches in the world. In               Tilefish, Cushion Sea Star, Elkhorn Coral,
            recent years, competitive free divers have            Creole Wrasse, Brown Tube Sponge,

            sought out Dean's Blue Hole as a unique               Basket Sponge, Sea Rod, Sea  Horse,
            dive site, hosting  both  world  records              Cleaning Goby, Bi-color Damselfish,
            (most notably by New Zealander William                Blue Tang, Juvenile Blue Tang, Spotted
            Trubridge) and one world championship                 Goatfish, Longspine Squirrelfish, Smooth
            (in 2009). Most tourists charter an                   Trunkfish, Garden  Eel,  Cero,  Bar  Jack,

            airplane or take a commercial flight from             Striped  Burrfish, Tobacco Fish, White
            Exuma International Airport  at George                Grunt,  Blue  Chromis,  Tarpon,  Bermuda
            Town,  Exuma or Nassau. International                 Chub, Coney, Tiger Grouper, Sargassum
            flights offered by Locair are planned and             Triggerfish,     Black     Durgon,     Ocean
            will mark the first return of regular                 Triggerfish, Queen Triggerfish, Banded
            international flights in over ten years.              Butterflyfish,     Spotfin      Butterflyfish,

                                                                  Puddingwife,       Beaugregory,       Spanish

                                                                  Lobster, Midnight Parrotfish, Balloonfish,
            Side 2 of Franko’s Long Island Mini-Map               Highhat, Yellowstriped Goatfish, Smooth
            and Fish Card  is the fish side.  Well over           Star  Coral,  Mountainous  Star  Coral,
            100 species of fish are arrayed on this 5.5”          Arrow Crab, Brain Coral, Branching Vase
            x 8.5” card in an underwater, coral reef              Sponge,  Sea  Cucumber, Sand Diver,

            setting.   Note that  the card is sized just          Redlip Blenny, Green Razorfish, White-
            right for 3-ring binder-type dive logs.               Spotted         Filefish,        Squirrelfish,
            Divers who keep dive log booklets can put             Trumpetfish, Fairy Basslet, Queen
            this card into their log book to keep track           Parrotfish, Rainbow Parrotfish,  Blue
            of where they’ve been, plus what species              Parrotfish, French  Grunt,  Yellowtail
            of fish they’ve seen. The extensive list of           Snapper, Glasseye Snapper, Sergeant
            fish and other coral reef creatures found             Major, Orange-spotted Filefish, Barred

            on this card is as follows:                           Hamlet,  Bluestriped Grunt, Spotted
                                                                  Trunkfish, Honeycomb Cowfish, Spotted
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