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How commercial sand dredging is reshaping the largest lake in the UK – new study

By Neil Reid, Reader (Associate Professor) in Conservation Biology, Queen's University Belfast

At Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland, sand has been dredged commercially for decades. Large vessels remove sand from the lakebed and transport it to the shore. Because this happens underwater, the scale of the activity is largely invisible. Regulation has focused on where dredging is allowed and how much sand is removed.

Sand is used by the construction industry to make concrete. Demand…

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