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Sea cucumber overfishing could hurt reef
News.com.au
15 October 2013
OVERFISHING is putting sea cucumbers in a pickle on the Great Barrier Reef, marine biologists say.
Sydney University's Professor Maria Byrne and Dr Hampus Eriksson, a post-doctoral researcher at Stockholm University, say more than 24 sea cucumber fisheries have closed in recent years. Read more
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