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the North Sea

Progress reports, precedents, and perspectives from the project to rebuild Doggerland, collected here as the vision moves from map to water.

A semi-submersible drilling rig under tow through the narrow entrance of the Cromarty Firth, tugs alongside, with the cliffs of the Sutors behind

17 August 2026Perspective

Second Lives for the Rigs of the Cromarty Firth

A Highland firth has become the waiting room of the North Sea oil industry: drilling rigs parked between jobs, or parked forever. The steel is superb marine habitat and ready-made offshore accommodation, and Nieuw Doggerland has a use for both.

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Freshly harvested sugar kelp lifted from a cultivation line at sea, with buoys and open water behind

4 August 2026Industry News

A Harvest Between the Turbines

Danish researchers have grown and landed a commercial-grade sugar kelp crop inside the Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farm. Wind farms that also feed people: that is multi-use of the sea, and it is the working assumption behind every hectare of Nieuw Doggerland.

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A snakelocks anemone among healthy seagrass on a sandy seabed in UK waters

18 July 2026Industry News

Restoration Goes Industrial: Seagrass in Cornwall, Oysters on Wind Farms

Two announcements, one message: rebuilding marine life in UK and North Sea waters is no longer a pilot activity. It is becoming infrastructure, and that is exactly what Nieuw Doggerland's ecology programme needs it to be.

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A native oyster resting in clear shallow water on a pebbled Orkney shore

13 July 2026Industry News

Fifteen Million Oysters: Orkney Sets the Pace for the North Sea

The UK's largest marine rewilding project is releasing 15 million native oysters around Orkney. Nieuw Doggerland's 50-million target suddenly looks less like a dream and more like a scaling problem.

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