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Most Severely Impacted Marine Habitat: Oyster Reefs

"The Nature Conservancy released the first-ever comprehensive global report on the state of shellfish at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, DC. The report, which finds that 85 percent of oyster reefs have been lost worldwide, concludes that oyster reefs are the most severely impacted marine habitat on the planet." - excerpt from this Nature Conservancy " article.

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