The Solution

Storm Squad & Look After Your Boat, Look After your Bottom

Whether you are a boat user, fisherperson or if you just want to become a member of our squad - read on to see our public involvement initiatives - obviously you can change this text and add your own!

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Because Posidonia is a protected species classified as ‘endangered’ in many NSW estuaries, one of the greatest challenges for restoration is finding donor shoots to revegetate the mooring scars.

Operation Posidonia has come up with an exciting solution to this problem, but it relies on getting help from local communities. The idea here is that donor seagrass shoots used in the restoration are collected by local 'citizen scientists' following large storms, which regularly result in detached seagrass fragments being washed-up along beaches.

The aim is to enlist the help of dog walkers and local beach-goers, who will be trained in distinguishing Posidonia from other seagrasses and join a local ‘seagrass storm squad’.

Detached seagrass shoots that are washed up after big storms would otherwise perish out of the water, so by collecting them and replanting them citizen scientists will be helping to restore seagrass populations without damaging existing Posidonia meadows.