Popularly eaten fish among key seabed engineers, research shows

Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex Seascape Survey scientists assessed the role of fish in bioturbation (churning and reworking sediments) in shallow UK seas. Their paper, published in the journal Marine Environmental Research, is titled “A functional assessment of fish as bioturbators and their vulnerability to local extinction.”

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