More than 85 per cent of Australia’s seagrass meadows have disappeared in recent decades, representing hundreds of thousands of hectares of natural habitat that includes some of Australia’s most important fisheries.
Significant areas of seagrass meadows have been lost from South Australia’s coastline, causing a hugely detrimental impact on local native fish populations.
As well as providing an important habitat for fish, seagrasses also help to stabilise soil and sediment on the ocean floor, helping to protect Australia’s shorelines from erosion and storms.
They also store carbon and nutrients, which helps to improve water quality and clarity – a hectare of seagrass stores 35 times more carbon than a hectare of rainforest.
The OzFish team collect our hessian sacks that we get from our organic potato growers, and use them as sandbags infused with seeds.
The sandbags of seeds are then dispersed, by boat, at strategic locations identified by marine scientists from the Environment Protection Authority and South Australian Research and Development Institute.
For more info, click on this link:
https://ozfish.org.au/2022/10/restoring-seagrass-meadows-along-south-australias-coastline/?swcfpc=1
Featured in the photo is Rachel Williams, a key volunteer from Ozfish picking up the hessian sacks from The Simple Market.
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