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Best places to dive with Sardines (Moalboal baitball)

Sardinella lemuru

The resident sardine baitball is Moalboal's signature sight: a school estimated from the tens of thousands to over a million fish that moves as one shifting mass. It sits shallow enough to snorkel and is present most of the year, though it fragments into several groups on some days and one dense ball on others. Exact species composition of the school is not formally documented; it is generally reported as sardinella.

Destinations ranked by how reliably sardines (moalboal baitball) is seen. The bars show the likelihood by month — never a guarantee. See the full species page for more.