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Restorative aquaculture shows we can have more habitat, and eat it too

For the first time, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in collaboration with scientists from the University of New England, the University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide, conducted a comprehensive global review of literature and analysis of 65 studies to quantify the relative habitat benefits of mussel, oyster, clam and seaweed farms. The results of this work show that farming systems for these species resulted in increased fish and invertebrate abundance and diversity in comparison to similar sites without farms present…

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