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Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 23:02:43 GMT -5
They told me the challenge was not to sink fish says Renton. As part of its restoration mission the charity has applied for status as a Demonstration and Research Marine Protected Area DR MPA by the Scottish government which would see it become a designated site for carrying out research on sustainable methods of marine management. Its a chance for all the stakeholders to sit down together and work out what dynamics have changed in the loch to try and improve biodiversity explains Renton. Sowing the seed Seawildings approach involves far more than marine experts. The charity is propped up by the community whose lives and futures revolve around a healthy loch. It is volunteers such as the MacLeod family who help harvest plant Mobile App Development Service and monitor the seagrass and oysters nestling on their doorstep. The lochs native oysters are sourced from a hatchery in Cumbria in the northwest of England and are reared until at least six months old in nursery cages floating in the loch. Around twice a year dozens of helpers from the village congregate on the lochs shoreline to scatter them into the water. Seagrass however takes more dedication. Volunteer snorkelers lumber in extra thick mm .in wetsuits to harvest seeds by hand in the cold. These seeds which are roughly the size of grains of rice are gathered into hessian bags and replanted on the seabed. Juvenile oysters are usually left to grow until they are six months old before they are released into Loch Craignishs waters Credit Frankie Adkins.
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