Artificial reefs have been promoted as ways of protecting, enhancing or restoring commercial fisheries or threatened ecosystems for many years.  However, the science needed to support these claims has until now been very limited.

New research carried out on the SAMS-owned complex of artificial reefs in Loch Linnhe, Scotland, is some of the first to demonstrate how marine life can thrive when reefs are designed to maximise optimum habitat types.

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