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  03 August 2018 Japanese oyster helps endangered Dutch flat oyster - The flat oyster, inextricably linked to the Dutch North Sea for hundreds of years, nearly disappeared last century. Only one island population in Lake...
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  23 July 2018 Diving in the North Sea: Marine life and research in Image Collections - New photos from Wageningen Marine Research have been added to Wageningen University & Research Image Collections. Some of these photos were taken...
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  17 July 2018 Green sea turtle digging its own watery grave due to invasion of non-native seagrass - Seagrass species from the Red Sea is outcompeting the native seagrass species in the Caribbean, where the green sea turtle lives. These iconic turtles...
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  13 July 2018 Environmental experts: oil platforms present ecological opportunities - The sea around oil and gas platforms often brims with life, with room for endangered and exotic species. However, under current regulations obsolete...
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  12 June 2018 At least 100 Bowhead whales sighted in the East Greenland Sea - Scientists of Wageningen Marine Research have just returned from the Arctic after a successful expedition organised by Oceanwide Expeditions, Inezia...
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  05 June 2018 International advice to Dutch ministry: pulse trawling has fewer ecological and environmental effects compared to beam trawling - The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea advices the Dutch ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality that “there are...
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  24 April 2018 European consumers pay the price for fish when hard brexit occurs - If the United Kingdom (UK) would completely close its marine areas, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium would be affected the most. For the...
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  28 March 2018 Ingestion of plastic by Polar Cod - The Arctic Ocean is often considered an undisturbed and pristine environment. Unfortunately, the Arctic isn’t an enclosed system but influenced...
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  25 January 2018 Increase in extremes calls for intensive river monitoring - Climate change and changes in land use mean that the past can tell us very little about future extreme discharges of rivers. A clever combined...
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  08 January 2018 Harbour porpoises and plastics - About 15% of harbour porpoises found dead on beaches in the Netherlands has ingested plastic in the stomach. This is shown in a recent publication by...