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Fish stocks thrive thanks to protected pink seaweed
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Fish stocks thrive thanks to protected pink seaweed

So: a decade-long ban on industrial scallop dredging around Scotland’s Summer Isles has given ancient maerl beds a chance to thrive. These pink, chalky seaweeds create rich underwater habitat where scallops and other fish can breed, and where dolphins, porpoises, and whales can find a healthy ecosystem. Local campaigners and sustainable creel fishermen helped secure protection for the seabed, which had been damaged by decades of dredging. Now, recovering scallop numbers and thriving stocks of herring, cod, and haddock show how protecting one marine habitat can benefit the whole food web.
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