The Trail of Dead Oysters: Everything Flows Into the Sea - Part 2 (German)

This report was originally published in German in Deutschlandfunk. The key points of this report are presented in English below, followed by its original version. For a full English version of the text, please click on the “Translate page with Google” button on the upper right-hand side.

Key Points

• As a reintroduction program aims to bring the European oyster back to the North Sea, environmental toxins pose a deadly threat to the mollusk.
• Environmental toxins reach the North Sea via rivers. Nanoplastics and forever chemicals are just large enough to serve as food for oyster larvae.
• Could this be the source of an oyster larvae die-off? The second and last part of an audio report published by German public radio station Deutschlandfunk sets out to find out.

Click below to listen to an audio report in German.

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Die Spur der toten Austern: Alles fließt ins Meer

Auch an Land tauchen Umweltgifte auf, die kaum erforscht sind. Über die Flüsse erreichen sie die Nordsee: Ewigkeitschemikalien oder Nanoplastik, gerade groß genug, um den Austernlarven als Futter zu dienen. Liegt hier die Quelle des Larvensterbens?

Klicken Sie unten, um sich die Audioaufnahme anzuhören.