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Crop rotation is a recognized way to keep soil and the food ecosystem healthy.

Now scientists are saying that rotation could be a useful tool in the sea.

Researchers tracked a shallow water near-shore species used for food, sea cucumbers.

They're easy to harvest and are fairly valuable,

but those same attributes mean they're easy to over harvest. The practice has put some sea cucumber

species at high risk of extinction, even in a relatively well-managed area, the Great Barrier

Marine Park in Australia. In 2004, authorities split the Great Barrier Reef into 154 zones,

where each zone was fished only once every three years.

Fishers rotate through the region.

In computer models, the researchers ran through dozens of simulations of each zone, both before

and after the divisions took place.

The trials revealed that even with an identical and low-catch allowance in all cases, the

sea cucumbers would recover

more fully under the rotation strategy than by harvesting simultaneously throughout the region.

In fact, in trials that included rotations, the yield actually increased.

The research is in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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