My daughter Alexandra is a marine biologist currently working on a project on Kangaroo island to save the local native kangaroo island oyster the Agnasi oyster from extinction. This is her on the front page, of the current edition of the National maritime museum’s magazine “signals”
She, as the team’s marine biologist, has led a pioneering team which has discovered that as the local razor fish (a 60cm long shellfish) population seriously declined, so did the native oyster as the spat of the oyster had no where to attach itself. The team made artificial razor fish shells using ceramics and deployed them in seabed areas where the razorfish habitat was known to exist. The experiment has been very successful with the spat latching onto the artificial razorfish ceramic . This discovery has been acclaimed worldwide as this is the first-time ceramics have been used to mimic a specific shellfish and proven to be successful.
The Federal government has extended the funding for her work as it now will be possible to save the oyster from extinction and to cultivate this oyster into a commercial enterprise ,thus bringing the oyster out of the danger of extinction. This scientific study may be used to save other species of marine life
I have also attached the article and an ABC you tube video link which tells you more
Thanks
Alex Comino.
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