Native oysters make encouraging comeback on restored North Sea reef
Reported byOceanographic Magazine ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
A one-hectare oyster reef restoration site off Whitburn, South Tyneside, deployed in October 2025 with 20 reef cubes, 60,000 juvenile oysters and 100 tonnes of scallop shell, is supporting 99% survival of 4,000 adult oysters and spawning young oysters that overwintered successfully. Volunteer divers found fish, shrimp and squat lobsters already colonizing the restored reef.
Native oyster reefs vanished from the area over a century ago; this is a five-year pilot project and the first of its kind in the region.
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