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Poor water quality and trawling take toll on seagrass

by Australian Rivers InstituteLeave a Comment on Poor water quality and trawling take toll on seagrass
Poor water quality and trawling take toll on seagrass

“With fisheries for example, seagrasses provide nursery habitat for juvenile fish and foraging grounds for about 25% of the world’s biggest fisheries. "We identified associations between pressures and measured changes in seagrass extent and found that seagrasses are especially under threat from poor water quality and destructive fisheries like trawling."