All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Call for community to help seeds for snapper seagrass season Call for community to help seeds for snapper seagrass season 28/10/2021 | 2 MINS A new community-based collaboration aims to address the loss of the seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound which also act as a nursery for baby pink snapper, calamari, whiting and blue swimmer crabs. Professor Gary Kendrick, from the School of Biological Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, is co-ordinating a project with fishing conservation charity OzFish and leading scientists to restore the meadows and is calling on the community for help. Professor Kendrick said ΓÇ£Seeds for SnapperΓÇ¥ Seagrass Restoration aimed to create a resilient and productive seagrass ecosystem in Cockburn Sound and Owen Anchorage and enhance pink snapper fishing into the future. ΓÇ£What often washes up on the beach to rot in the sun this time of the year is seagrass fruit, which contains the all-important seed,ΓÇ¥ Professor Kendrick said. ΓÇ£By collecting these fruits and processing them for the seed, we can us
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October Call for community to help seeds for snapper seagrass season Call for community to help seeds for snapper seagrass season 28/10/2021 | 2 MINS A new community-based collaboration aims to address the loss of the seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound which also act as a nursery for baby pink snapper, calamari, whiting and blue swimmer crabs.
Professor Gary Kendrick, from the School of Biological Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, is co-ordinating a project with fishing conservation charity OzFish and leading scientists to restore the meadows and is calling on the community for help.
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Professor Kendrick said ΓÇ£Seeds for SnapperΓÇ¥ Seagrass Restoration aimed to create a resilient and productive seagrass ecosystem in Cockburn Sound and Owen Anchorage and enhance pink snapper fishing into the future.
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ΓÇ£What often washes up on the beach to rot in the sun this time of the year is seagrass fruit, which contains the all-important seed,ΓÇ¥ Professor Kendrick said.
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ΓÇ£By collecting these fruits and processing them for the seed, we can us
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