Seagrass Ecosystems Make for Cleaner Seafood

SALISH SEA WILD

Coastal urban seagrass ecosystems can significantly reduce human bacterial pathogens, including those with widespread antibiotic resistance, in marine bivalves — a vital food source poised to support over half of global seafood production and consumption. Today that work, which SeaDoc helped make possible, was published in the Nature Sustainability.

Behold the awesome power of seagrass in this special episode of Salish Sea Wild!

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Written and produced by Bob Friel and SeaDoc Society.