Sea Cucumbers feeding

A video courtesy of Dr. Cody Clements, Research Scientist at the School of Biological Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Sea cucumber ‘nurseries’ could protect coral reefs
- Growing sea cucumbers in underwater nurseries could be a way of restoring their services as “vacuum cleaners” of the ocean to protect the Asia-Pacific’s declining coral reefs, marine ecologists suggest.

Coral reefs play a crucial role in the region’s biodiversity, food security, employment, tourism, and medical research, but many reefs are suffering degradation due to pollution, ocean warming and overfishing.

Now, a team of researchers from the US has discovered that the overharvesting of sea cucumbers may also be contributing to the reefs’ demise.

Full story on SciDev.Net: https://www.scidev.net/global/news/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs/

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