World’s largest seagrass project proves ‘You can actually restore the oceans’

Laura Paddison, The Current Fisheries & Aquaculture

World’s largest seagrass project proves ‘You can actually restore the oceans’
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McGlathery, an environmental sciences professor at the University of Virginia, is part of a team running the largest seagrass restoration project in the world in these coastal bays — and one of the most successful. The two-decade-long project is a “blueprint for restoring and maintaining healthy ecosystems,” according to a 2020 research paper, and proof that marine habitats can be brought back to life in a way that’s self-sustaining.

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