Shellfish beds or reefs, formed by mussels and oysters, have declined worldwide. Sterre Witte, who conducted her PhD research at the NIOZ Coastal Systems department, investigated how we can counteract ...
Commercially important seafood species are at greater risk of microplastic contamination depending how they clump together in the marine environment, new research suggests. In the first study of its ...
New analysis has shown that the UK's first large scale offshore mussel farm might in fact serve as a form of restoration rather than creating habitats never seen in the area before. A map dating from ...
Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for ...
Around Australia, hundreds of people are coming together to help a once-prized, but decimated and largely forgotten marine ecosystem. They’re busy restoring Australia’s native oyster and mussel reefs.