Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins
For nearly a decade, divers off Tasmania’s east coast have been getting a boost from the government to harvest the invasive sea urchins killing off kelp forests that fringe the Australian island state. A state program offers financial incentives to support a commercial fishery for the highly valuable roe of the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus […]
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