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Caroline Snow | Restoring oyster reefs around our coasts
Dr Ruth Thurstan from the University of Exeter said, “I knew that oysters used to be caught in huge quantities, so we suspected that these reefs could be large, but to find information that evidenced such coverage of reefs, amazed me. But they were all gone by the beginning of the 20th century to leave the sands, mud and gravel that dominate the seafloor today.”