European flat oysters reintroduced to U.K. waters after being extinct since 19th century
TORONTO -- In a project aiming to bring a type of oyster back from the brink of extinction in British waters, thousands are being reintroduced to local waters for the first time since the 19th century. The initiative is called the Wild Oyster Project, and it plans to return thousands of European flat oysters to the south of the United Kingdom's coastline in hopes of repopulating the overfished marinas. “The oysters will breed inside these structures and they will release millions and billions of oyster larvae,” Ashleigh Tinlin-Mackenzie from the Wild Oysters Project told CTV Nation...
Source: ctvnews.ca