Author: Millie Black

Marine scientists and Indigenous communities have joined forces to develop regenerative aquaculture to restore oceans along the east and south coast of Australia. A program, Blue Futures, has devised strategies that assist in the process of restoring the earth’s increasing greenhouse gases and carbon emissions stored in the ocean. UOW head coordinator Michelle Voyer said that they are in the developmental phase of gathering strategies which allow organisms such as seaweed to store carbon whilst also regenerating self-sufficiently. “We have seen a significant decline of kelp on the south coast of Tasmania, so we are looking at how we can…

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