habitat restoration restores

 From published sources spanning 350 years, the team of 37 researchers documented more than 1,000 locations where oyster fisheries and habitat once existed. Extensive reefs occurred along the coasts of France, Denmark, Ireland and the UK, as well as parts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. A mysterious transformation

Written records in government reports, early scientific studies, the writings of naturalists and newspaper articles describe reefs averaging 30 hectares (around 50 football pitches) in size, and rarely being smaller than one hectare (about the size of London’s Trafalgar Square).

In the southern North Se


a between the UK and the Netherlands, reefs occurred over hundreds of kilometres. These reefs were so full of oysters that they were a noted concern for sail trawlers, who risked breaking their fishing gear on the heavy clumps of shell. habitat restoration restores

Although information on the size of reefs was available for only a quarter of the historical reef locations, our sources collectively described more than 1.7 million hectares of oyster reef – an area larger than Northern Ireland. These reefs in turn supported vibrant communities of invertebrates, fish and marine mammals.

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