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A recipe for ocean health: Add 10 million oysters to salty water

Rewilding our depleted oceans will help restore them to health, and the best place to start is with the humble oyster, says Charles Clover

By Charles Clover

8 June 2016

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Where’s the catch?

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Today is , a good time to reflect on the damage that humankind has done to the blue part of the planet.

The health of the seas hangs in the balance. The bleaching of coral reefs as amid global warming has reached record levels in some areas.

Drilling for oil has spread to the deep seas. New forms of plastic pollution are widespread and are harming fish, and the oceans face rising acidification – a phenomenon that we now know in Earth’s past. Overfishing

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