Firm farm equipment off St John's Island taken over by Singapore Aquaculture Technologies (SAT)

Singapore Aquaculture Technologies (SAT) will take over Barramundi Group’s equipment off St John's Island. 10ha of deep-sea cages, the two barges, floating solar panels and a battery storage barge. They will also run a seabass hatchery and nursery at the Singapore Food Agency’s Marine Aquaculture Centre on St John's Island. 

Barramundi Group’s open-sea cages off Pulau Senang and Pulau Semakau will not be taken over by SAT. SAT now operates indoor floating farms in the Johor Strait.

Plans to redevelop Sentosa and Pulau Brani into a tourist destination

A people-mover system is planned between Pulau Brani and Singapore via the Keppel Link bridge. As part of plans to redevelop Sentosa and Pulau Brani into a tourist destination after the Brani Terminal relocates by 2027.

From the Sentosa website 

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Book on "Coral Reefs of Singapore's Urbanised Sea"

A new book on Singapore's coral reefs shares how reefs respond to decades of chronic urbanization impacts and episodic marine heatwave events.  It demonstrates the significance of protecting coral reef habitats in tropical coastal cities in line with COP and UN SDG14. And lays the contexts of long-term persistence of marginal reefs.

By Associate Professor Huang and Emeritus Professor Chou Loke Ming from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences. $311 on Amazon Sg. Not yet available in our National Library. 

Review on the Springer website and Straits Times article

Collision between Batam ferry and chemical tanker (10 Nov 2025)

The Straits Times reported a collision between a Batam ferry and a chemical tanker 'in Singapore waters'. No details on exactly where in Singapore waters. But examining the past tracks from Marine Traffic, of the routes taken by the chemical tanker LA Digue and ferry Horizon 9.

Overlapping their tracks, the likely collision area likely to be quite close to our southern islands.

Update via MPA media release 11 Nov: The collision occurred off the Southern Islands on 10 November at about 5pm.

An MPA patrol craft was immediately deployed to escort and guide the ferry back to HarbourFront Centre. The ferry sustained some damage to its bow above the waterline but remained fully operational while en route back to Harbourfront Centre. The tanker, La Digue, did not report any damage. There were no reports of injury to passengers and crew, or pollution arising from the incident. 

Changi Creek shores still starry!

There are living rocky shores and seagrass meadows at the mouth of Changi Creek, where bumboats ply to and from Pulau Ubin. We seldom survey Changi and our last survey here was in Jan 2020!

It was a relief to see many sea stars on the shore, as well as other interesting marine life. Although it was disconcerting to come across bleaching seagrass and sponges with dead tips. 

A restricted East Coast Park site survives the Pasir Panjang oil spill

Corals have settled on a 2.5km long seawall at East Coast Park stretching to Marina Bay! Seagrass meadows carpet the lagoon behind the seawall, while mangroves settled on the breakwaters. Our last survey was in Jun 2024, just two weeks after the 400tonne Pasir Panjang oil spill on 14 Jun 2024. It was also at the height of ongoing mass coral bleaching. 

The team braced for a sad situation, so we were delighted to see that the corals, mangroves and seagrasses seem to have pulled through these events! In fact, we have our first sighting of Fern seagrass outside their northern stronghold of Changi to Chek Jawa! Thanks for permission from agencies to survey this shore.