McGill pursued her vigorously, offering a teaching load of one course per year to entice the zoologist turned activist to Montreal. Enter Vincent's office on the fourth floor of the Stewart Biology Building and you are surrounded by images and artifacts representing seahorses. It is a passion. The fish is a charmer, all right. But it isn't just another pretty, albeit fishy, face.
Seahorses are also big money.
The trade supports entire communities in the Philippines and Vietnam. Amanda Vincent on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, en route to the seahorse ranch. But if you're taking 20 million seahorses a year, you have to be having some effect. Without intervention the picture is bleak, but Vincent is banking on the photogenic seahorse, as support for it could also save the coastal habitat. Feminism and Fish Feminism and curiosity led Vincent to the seagrass fields.