Oyster aquaculture cages provide fish habitat similar to natural structure with minimal differences based on farm location by Renee Mercaldo-Allen, Peter J. Auster, Paul Clark, Mark S. Dixon, Erick Estela, Yuan Liu, Yuan Liu, Lisa Milke, Gillian Phillips, Gillian Phillips, Dylan Redman, Barry C. Smith, Alison Verkade, Julie M. Rose

“…During 2018, underwater cameras were mounted on four study cages at a dense shellfish farm of 40-100 commercial cages (dense cage farm), on four single cages interspersed on low relief seafloor (sparse cage farm), and amongst four boulders on a rock reef (rock reef), within an embayment off Milford, Connecticut, which is part of Long Island Sound, in the United States. …”
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