Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

Study uncovers vivid and poignant accounts of reefs as high as houses off countries including UK, France and Ireland Only a handful of natural oyster reefs measuring at most a few square metres cling on precariously along European coasts after being wiped out by overfishing, dredging and pollution. A study led by British scientists has…