Seagrass in the Pacific

Abstract

Seagrasses provide food, shelter, breeding grounds and nursery aneas for many marine organisms, including fish, crabs, prawns, jellyfish and octopus. Big anirnals graze on it, little animals live amongst it. Research has found that 400 square metres of seagrass (10 metres long and 40 metres wide) can support 2,000 tonnes of fish a ye.rr. For people who enjoy catching and eating fish, the long-term health of our commercial and recreational iisheries relies heavily on the survival of seagrasses.