Browsing by Subject "Habitat recovery"

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Decline in oyster populations in traditional fishing grounds; is habitat damage by static fishing gear a contributory factor in ecosystem degradation?

Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; Smyth, David; Giraldes, Bruno; Chatting, Mark; Al-Mohannadi, Mohammed; Le Vay, Lewis... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)
The territorial waters of Qatar once supported dense assemblages of the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata. The oysters settled on a patchy network of limestone platforms (hairãt) and provided a suite of ecosystem services to ...