Buyer Name: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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Contact Name: Bo-Jess Brooks
Contact Email: bo.brooks@defra.gov.uk
Buyer Name: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Buyer Address: Seacole Building 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, UK
Contact Name: Bo-Jess Brooks
Contact Email: bo.brooks@defra.gov.uk
The project aims to provide a rapid and comprehensive scientific response to the recent and ongoing outbursts of Octopus vulgaris in the waters off Devon and Cornwall. Contract awarded by Defra.
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