I am pleased to announce that I have won the ‘open’ category for Young Science Communicator of 2018 with NRF-SAASTA! My entry below, named “Finding fish“, illustrates our environmental DNA research through cartoon! This exciting work is being carried out in the von der Heyden lab at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in collaboration with the Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory at Bangor University, UK. We have gratefully received funding from the National Research Foundation in South Africa, and the Fisheries Society of the British Isles for eDNA research.