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Virginia restored 12,000 acres of seagrass. Can Maine also stem the decline?

Conservationists are testing seed-based methods that helped restore more than 12,000 acres in Virginia as Maine meadows thin and shrink.

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Glenn Page, who leads a seagrass research and restoration project called Team Zostera, collects reproductive shoots from a healthy eelgrass meadow in Casco Bay on Aug. 7, 2026. Photo by Jamie Walter for The Maine Monitor.Maine’s seagrass meadows are shrinking and thinning. And this isn’t the only place where seagrass is declining. These underwater meadows off Maine’s coast are part of a global, decades-long pattern of loss believed to be driven …

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Virginia restored 12,000 acres of seagrass. Can Maine also stem the decline?

The underwater meadows provide nursery habitat for young sea creatures, improve water quality, store carbon, prevent erosion, absorb the destructive energy of storm surges and more.

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The Maine Monitor broke the news on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
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