International Journal of Marine Science, 2024, Vol.14, No.4, 275-284 http://www.aquapublisher.com/index.php/ijms 278 Figure 2 Restoration practice commonly focuses on (a) single-species approaches to habitat restoration, such as constructing reefs to restore oysters, whereas a (b) multi-habitat approach could utilise constructed reefs to recover multiple lost habitat-types (oysters, seagrass, kelp). Examples of multi-habitat restoration in practice demonstrate the facilitative benefits of co-restoration, including (c) constructed oyster reefs that buffer hydrodynamics and stabilise sediments to promote seagrass recovery, and (d) kelp transplants atop constructed reefs that maintain substrata free of turfing algae to facilitate understory oyster recruitment (South Australia) (Adopted from McAfee et al., 2022) 3.3 Promoting carbon sequestration Shellfish aquaculture contributes to carbon sequestration by incorporating carbon into the shells and tissues of bivalves. This process helps mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. For instance, the farming of mussels and oysters has been shown to remove significant amounts
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjQ4ODYzNA==