ApocaDocs: 85 percent of oyster reefs gone

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Posted Fri May 22 2009: from Mongabay:


	85 percent of oyster reefs gone http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1242993063 The first global report on the state of shellfish was released today at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, DC. Painting a dire picture for shellfish worldwide, the report found that 85 percent of oyster reefs have vanished.... "We're seeing an unprecedented and alarming decline in the condition of oyster reefs, a critically important habitat in the world's bays and estuaries," said Mike Beck, senior marine scientist at The Nature Conservancy and lead author of the report. Oyster reefs in North America, Europe, and Australia are particularly hard-hit with many of the reef systems considered functionally extinct. Still the majority of wild oysters come from the east coast of North America, where even these productive reefs are in decline.

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'Doc Michael says:

Thank goodness I don't even like oysters.