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Explosion of Marine Life in the Wreckage of a World War Is Under Threat
Joanne Porter
Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University Orkney Campus
Clara Mackenzie
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
Joanne Porter Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University Orkney Campus
Clara Mackenzie Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling
The scuttling of 52 German warships off Scotland nearly a century ago during World War I spawned a habitat for a diverse array of crab, lobster, starfish, sea urchin and fish. Now bottom trawling and climate change is imperiling that refuge, say two researchers.