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‘For a brown invertebrate’: rescuing native UK oysters

Tom Cameron works with local oyster growers to restore native oysters to their natural habitat in the United Kingdom.
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Tom Cameron sitting in a boat off the coast of Essex, UK, watching a digger on a nearby barge drop stone and shell into the sea

Tom Cameron is a senior lecturer in ecology at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. Credit: Jessica Hallett/Nature

For the past five years, I’ve studied oysters — a commercially and environmentally important species in southeast England. My research is very practical: I help to solve problems by working with oyster growers (known locally as oystermen), regulators and other community members. Resulting papers are evidence of work I’ve already done.

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Nature 600, 182 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03573-5

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