Return of the wild oyster: conservationists bring shellfish back from local extinction off Scottish coast
A Guardian feature reports that wild native oysters have bred for the first time in the Dornoch Firth after more than a century of local extinction, through the Deep restoration project run by Heriot-Watt University, Glenmorangie and the Marine Conservation Society. Prof Bill Sanderson calls the natural reproduction a very significant milestone, hoping 4m oysters will colonise and the population become self-sustaining by 2031, though conservationists remain anxious about overfishing, pollution and drag-net fisheries.
