Why huge concrete-like ‘cubes’ housing 4,000 oysters have been deployed in North Sea

Huge concrete-like cubes deployed in North Sea to protect oysters from stormsZSL/Stronger Shores Partnership

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00:00Across the UK, native oyster populations have declined by 95% over the past 200 years.

00:04The Wild Oysters Project Tyne and Weir is a collaboration between the Zoological Society of

00:08London and Groundwork Northeastern Cumbria and together we're working to restore native

00:13oyster populations off the coast of the northeast. We've established a 10,000 square metre restoration

00:18trial site off the coast of Whitburn with the aim of restoring native oyster habitat which in

00:23turn can help benefit local marine wildlife and also help improve our coastal water quality.

00:28So we've deployed 20 oyster reef cubes with 4,000 oysters attached onto them.

00:33Alongside this, we've deployed 35,000 spat-on shell and 40 tons of repurposed scallop shell cull.