Countryfile

BBC Two HD

8:00 AM to 8:55 AM

Sunday 19 July

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Next stop on Anita Rani's east coast road trip is West Mersea in Essex, where oysters have been harvested for more than 2,000 years, cultivated in the creeks around Mersea Island. Anita heads onto the brackish waters to meet the people farming oysters and talks to a team investigating how the non-native Atlantic rock oyster is affecting the local ecosystem, and whether it could play a role in helping coastal habitats respond to rising sea levels. Along the way, Anita looks back through the Countryfile archives at the people and projects shaping life around the coastline