European Oyster Reefs Collapse

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Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

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Study led by British scientists has discovered how extensive they once were.

They found reefs as high as a house covering at least 1.7 m hectares ( 4.2m acres ) from Norway to the Mediterranean , an area larger than Northern Ireland .

Only a handful of remnant reefs in a few parts of Europe , including the coast of Brittany and the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland .

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