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  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast. <br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Seagrass Restoration
  • A seagrass ghost goby (Pleurosicya bilobata) uses transparent skin to blend in to a seagrass blade in Indonesia.
    Goby on Seagrass Blade
  • Juvenile rigid shrimpfish (Centriscus scutatus) are camouflaged to look like pieces of drifting seagrass blades. Image made somewhere in Indonesia.
    Reef Fish Adapted to Look Like Seagr...jpg
  • Juvenile Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) take shelter in a seagrass (Zostera marina) meadow in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
    20220703-500_2864.jpg
  • Eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, grows underwater with mountains in the background. Image made in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
    20220629-DSC_0246.jpg
  • A clinging jellyfish (Gonionemus vertens) sticks to seagrass (Zostera marina) in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
    20220703-500_2657.jpg
  • Eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, grows underwater with mountains in the background. Image made in Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA
    20220629-DSC_0245.jpg
  • Oxygen bubbles form on neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. Seagrass produce oxygen through photosynthesis. One square meter of seagrass can produce 10 liters of oxygen per day. They also absorb and store carbon 35 times more efficiently than rainforests helping our fight against climate change.
    20190629-500_3711.jpg
  • How do you restore 9000 acres of seagrass? One handful at a time. A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy grabs a handful of eelgrass (Zostera marina) flowering shoots, containing seeds. The seeds will be used to contribute to the world's largest seagrass restoration project off Virginia's East Coast.<br />
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Seagrass sequesters carbon more efficiently than rainforests and this technique is being repeated now off the coast of the United Kingdom. These restorations could really help in our fight against climate change.<br />
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Seagrass in the area was wiped out by disease, bottom trawling and a hurricane in 1933, killing a major scallop fishery in the process. In the early 2000's Dr. Robert J. Orth started the restoration project with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. To date, the project has restored over 9000 acres of seagrass meadows. The benefits are already showing and a recreational scallop fishery may be in the near future.
    Solutions.jpg
  • Life on a small scale thrives on individual seagrass blades. Here, colonies of Electra posidoniae (the chain link things) and Lichenopora radiata (the white things) bryozoans on a Posidonia oceanica seagrass blade. If you include this level of organism in the equation, seagrass rivals rain forests in biodiversity.
    20190628-500_3375.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2181.jpg
  • A researcher with The Nature Conservancy adds eelgrass (Zostera marina) to a large vat where seagrass seeds will seperate from the leaves for later dispersal. This seagrass restoration project in Virginia, USA is the largest and most successful in the world.
    20190531-501_2091.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5459.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass in an area in need of restoration in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5301.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher with CORE sciences in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    20180606-500_5249.jpg
  • Close-up detail comparison of seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) in clean water vs. dirty water. Seagrass is a photosynthesising plant that produces oxygen and sequesters carbon. Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180211-DSC_3980.jpg
  • Double-ended Pipefish (Syngnathoides biaculeatus) hides in a struggling seagrass meadow near Malapascua, Philippines.
    20181016-500_9757.jpg
  • A comparison of clean seagrass vs. seagrass covered in sediments kicked up by passing boat traffic. The more sediment, the less the seagrass blades can absorb sunlight to photosynthesize.
    Crushing Our Oxygen Producers.jpg
  • Juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) hiding in eelgrass (Zostera marina) off Newfoundland Canada. This species of fish were once one of the most caught and eaten fish in the world. In 1992 the fishery collapsed and 37,000 people lost their jobs overnight. Juvenile cod and many other heavily fished species use seagrass as a nursery. The healthier the seagrass is, the better fisheries will likely be.
    20190925-500_0094.jpg
  • A seagrass ghost goby (Pleurosicya bilobata) uses transparent skin to blend in to a seagrass blade in Indonesia.
    20180919-500_2930.jpg
  • Commercial diver Justin Bland from the SeaChange Society sources eelgrass (Zostera marina) from a robust seagrass bed for the purposes of transplanting the seagrass to an area in need of restoration.
    20210927-500_9807.jpg
  • A school of striped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus) move through seagrass, eating the algae growning on the seagrass blades. Image made off Manado, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_1807.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0566.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0554.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0255.jpg
  • Life on a small scale thrives on individual seagrass blades. Here, colonies of Electra posidoniae (the chain link things) and Lichenopora radiata (the white things) bryozoans on a Posidonia oceanica seagrass blade. If you include this level of organism in the equation, seagrass rivals rain forests in biodiversity.
    Life on a Single Blade.jpg
  • An invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) in a seagrass meadow off Vancouver Island, BC. Green crabs are especially destructive in seagrass meadows because they dig in the sediment for food and uproot the seagrass. They can decimate this important plant quickly.
    20210527-500_9753.jpg
  • Juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) hiding in eelgrass (Zostera marina) off Newfoundland Canada. This species of fish were once one of the most caught and eaten fish in the world. In 1992 the fishery collapsed and 37,000 people lost their jobs overnight. Juvenile cod and many other heavily fished species use seagrass as a nursery. The healthier the seagrass is, the better fisheries will likely be.
    20190925-500_0361.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2969.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) is likely the oldest living organism on Earth. A single patch of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain is estimated to be between 80,000 and 200,000 years old.
    20190624-500_2553.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2355.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190624-500_2090.jpg
  • A school of striped catfish (Plotosus lineatus) move through seagrass, eating the algae growing on the seagrass blades. Image made off Manado, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_1824.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180420-500_6427.jpg
  • White spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) soaring over a seagrass meadow off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180420-500_6368.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) happens upon a seagrass researcher in The Bahamas. The goal of the research is to understand the effects of grazing on seagrass by animals like turtles, parrot fish, and manatees.
    Field Research.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0440.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2161.jpg
  • Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off Newfoundland Canada were once one of the most caught and eaten fish in the world. In 1992 the fishery collapsed and nearly 40,000 people lost their jobs overnight. Juvenile cod and many other heavily fished species use seagrass as a nursery. The healthier the seagrass is, the better fisheries will likely be.
    Major Fisheries.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0571.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0470.jpg
  • Many organisms like nematoda, Harpacticoida, Cnidaria, Polychaeta (larva), Foraminifera, make their home on neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain.
    20190628-500_3195.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190625-500_2899.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2349.jpg
  • The flower of tape seagrass (Enhalus acoroides). Image made near Alor, Indonesia.
    20181002-500_5741.jpg
  • Viki Kolatkova, PhD student and commercial diver with the SeaChange Society, plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) in an area that once had lush seagrass meadows that were destroyed due to human activities.
    20210928-500_0323.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2781.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2764.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190624-500_2150.jpg
  • A family gathers the fruit of tape seagrass (Enhalus acoroides) to eat and sell at low tide off Bali, Indonesia.
    20180909-501_9024.jpg
  • A yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis) hides in turtlegrass seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) in The Bahamas
    20200520-500_0977.jpg
  • Tape Seagrass (Enhalus acoroides) seascape in Indonesia
    20181002-500_5882.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2209.jpg
  • A family collects fruit in a tape seagrass (Enhalus acoroides) bed at low tide in Bali, Indonesia.
    20180909-501_9005.jpg
  • A seagrass (Enhalus acoroides) meadow off Flores, Indonesia.
    20180924-500_3546.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) is likely the oldest living organism on Earth. A single patch of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain is estimated to be between 80,000 and 200,000 years old. Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030454
    Oldest Living Organism.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2677.jpg
  • A pair of Northern sea stars or common starfish (Asterias vulgaris) feed on the various creatures and algae growing on eelgrass (Zostera marina), a type of seagrass, off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190515-500_6184.jpg
  • A young couple look for sea urchins and fruit among seagrass beds at low tide in Indonesia.
    20180912-501_9410.jpg
  • A barge rests in the evening after a day installing a sea wall for a massive dock set to house super-yachts. Dolphins feed in the adjacent seagrass. The dock is responsible for massive amounts of sediments that may smother seagrass beds and coral reefs in the area.
    20190301-DJI_0693sm.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0218.jpg
  • Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) hunting over a seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in the Florida Keys, Florida, USA.
    20190605-500_9775.jpg
  • A shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) swimming over a seagrass bed, Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190515-500_6138.jpg
  • Marine Biologist Olivia Rhoades tends to her experiment on seagrass predators and scavengers in The Bahamas.
    20190320-500_4912.jpg
  • A red lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunting moluccan cardinal fish (Apogon moluccensis) in a type of seagrass called tape grass (Enhalus acoroides) off North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_1642.jpg
  • A mature queen conch (Aliger gigas) in a seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in The Bahamas.
    20200709-500_2369.jpg
  • A young Northern sea star (Asterias vulgaris) on a blade of seagrass (Zostera marina) off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190926-500_1239.jpg
  • Juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) hiding in eelgrass (Zostera marina) off Newfoundland Canada. This species of fish were once one of the most caught and eaten fish in the world. In 1992 the fishery collapsed and 37,000 people lost their jobs overnight. Juvenile cod and many other heavily fished species use seagrass as a nursery. The healthier the seagrass is, the better fisheries will likely be.
    20190925-500_9826c.jpg
  • A nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) hunts in a seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in the Florida Keys, USA.
    20190604-500_9083.jpg
  • A shorthorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) swimming over a seagrass bed, Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190515-500_6139.jpg
  • A banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) searches a seagrass bed for food. Image made off North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_2218.jpg
  • A queen conch (Lobatus gigas) feeding on the algae growing on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum). Image made in Exuma, Bahamas.
    20171129-DSC_1787.jpg
  • A banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) searches a seagrass bed for food in Indonesia,
    Hunting Ground.jpg
  • A lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunts cardinal fish in the seagrass off Manado, Indonesia. Seagrass is an important habitat for both predators and prey.
    Habitat.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_8807.jpg
  • A Bay pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) hiding in seagrass (Zostera marina) in Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20201104-500_7636.jpg
  • A Bay pipefish (Syngnathus leptorhynchus) hiding in seagrass (Zostera marina) in Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20201012-500_6257.jpg
  • A dugong or sea cow (Dugong dugon) feeding on seagrass (halophila stipulacea) off Marsa Alam, Egypt in the Red Sea.
    20191005-500_2350.jpg
  • Dugong (Dugong dugon) feeding on seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) with juvenile golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus). Image made in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt
    20191001-500_1529.jpg
  • Dugong (Dugong dugon) male and juvenile Golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus) feeding on Seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) off Marsa Alam, Egypt.
    20191001-500_1444.jpg
  • A young Northern sea star (Asterias vulgaris) on a blade of seagrass (Zostera marina) off Newfoundland, Canada.
    20190926-500_1182.jpg
  • Volunteers with The Nature Conservancy collect eelgrass (Zostera marina) for the seeds once a year as part of a major seagrass restoration project off Virginia, USA.
    20190531-DJI_0025.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190531-501_1961.jpg
  • A volunteer with The Nature Conservancy collects shoots of eelgrass (Zostera marina) with seeds as part of the world's largest seagrass restoration project lead by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Virginia, USA.
    20190528-500_6631.jpg
  • A hotel and marina constructed in a seagrass meadow. Harbour Island, Bahamas
    20190301-DJI_0721.jpg
  • A school of yellow jacks (Carangoides bartholomaei) hunt over a seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in shallow waters of Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2013_11_20_HI306.jpg
  • A banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) searches a seagrass bed for food. Image made off North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_2245.jpg
  • A sea anemone in the middle of a vast seagrass bed attracts a hub of sealife. Image made off North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
    20180916-500_1773.jpg
  • A juvenile queen conch (Lobatus gigas) eats the algae growning on seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) blades. Image made off Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20180619-500_5896.jpg
  • Mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs are all connected and all rely on each other for healthy functioning. Seagrasses occupy 0.1% of the seafloor, yet are responsible for 11% of the organic carbon buried in the ocean. Seagrass meadows, mangroves and coastal wetlands capture carbon at a rate greater than that of tropical forests.
    Connected Habitats.jpg
  • Commercial diver Jamie Smith of the SeaChange Society plants eelgrass (Zostera marina) into an area that historically had lush seagrass beds, but were wiped out due to human activity.
    20210928-500_0243.jpg
  • Volunteers with the SeaChange society prepare eelgrass (Zostera marina) for transplant as part of a seagrass restoration effort in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210927-DSC_9047.jpg
  • Invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas) in eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadow. These are highly destructive invasive species which can uproot important seagrass and can out-compete native crab species. Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
    20210527-500_9753.jpg
  • Dugong (Dugong dugon) male and juvenile Golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus) feeding on Seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) off Marsa Alam, Egypt.
    20191005-500_2338.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding on Seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt.
    20191001-500_1641.jpg
  • A hooded cuttlefish (Sepia prashadi) over a seagrass meadow in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt.
    20191001-500_1425.jpg
  • Yachts and sailboats moore in the lee of Harbour Island, Bahamas. Once home to thick densities of seagrass beds, now, due to anchors and moorings and pollution, only a few patches remain.
    20190301-DJI_0655.jpg
  • Longspine waspfish (Paracentropogon longispinus) hiding in a seagrass meadow off Flores, Indonesia.
    20180924-500_3406.jpg
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