EuroReefs restores North Sea oysters

Oysters can provide 'services' that can outweigh their harvest value  Photo: © Penny Mayes/CC BY-SA 2.0

The Oyster Restoration Company and offshore engineering specialist DEME have completed EuroReefs, a large-scale native European flat oyster restoration project in the Belgian North Sea, marking a significant step towards industrial-scale marine habitat restoration

Commissioned by Belgium’s Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment and financed through the European Union’s NextGenerationEU programme, the project saw a 100-cubic-metre living reef installed in a single day at a dedicated offshore site in the Hinderbanken area.

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