{"id":360604,"date":"2026-01-09T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:06:06","slug":"ocean-superhero-oyster-species-in-seabed-first-for-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360604\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ocean superhero&#8217; oyster species in seabed first for NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This seabed deployment is a first for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project is supported by Ulster Wildlife members, Belfast Harbour and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs via the Carrier Bag Levy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several native oyster nurseries have been created at Bangor Marina, Belfast Harbour, Glenarm and Carrickfergus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Belfast Lough, the oysters are placed on the seabed to form a natural reef over time and potentially provide habitat for spat from the nurseries to settle on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After measuring a sample, staff and volunteers from Ulster Wildlife put the oysters in biodegradable potato starch bags for laying on the seabed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This seabed deployment is a first for Northern Ireland. The project is supported by Ulster Wildlife members, Belfast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-360604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}