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Xincun Bay and Its Seagrass Reserve

A lagoon bay in southern Lingshui where local boatman and fisher Lin Yousen showed reporters a living seagrass bed inside a protected area.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment places Xincun Bay in southern Lingshui and describes it as the county’s largest lagoon. A special reserve covering Xincun Port and Lian Port was approved in 2007 to protect seagrass beds. In a 2024 field report, Danjia fisher Lin Yousen took reporters by fishing boat into the lagoon to see the underwater “meadow”; county staff described the reserve’s zones and monitoring stations. Here the focus is the seagrass reserve across Xincun Port and Lian Port, where fishers and county staff monitor the lagoon’s underwater habitat.

Underwater seagrass leaves in Xincun Bay Lagoon, in the reference-site photograph published as Figure 1D.
A reference-site seagrass scene in Xincun Bay Lagoon, shown in Figure 1D of Chen et al. (2022); cropped from the published figure.

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Underwater seagrass leaves in Xincun Bay Lagoon, in the reference-site photograph published as Figure 1D.

The Meadow Beneath the Lagoon

A Danjia fisher took reporters by fishing boat into Xincun Lagoon to see seagrass; the protected bay’s story now runs through observation, zoning and restoration.

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  1. A reference-site seagrass scene in Xincun Bay Lagoon, shown in Figure 1D of Chen et al. (2022); cropped from the published figure.Chen et al. · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: the published article figure in WebP; display is a crop of panel D only. Map panels A/B were excluded; display is not enlarged.