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There’s 2+ great articles in the Newburyport Current by Barbara Taormina about the idea of restoring clams and oysters to local waters once more. Basic summary: Its possible and would be a great benefit locally…and there remain issues to deal with including the need to continue using the Plum Island purification plant before sending clams [...] We’ve blogged about oysters a bit lately and we’ve learned that this summer in Massachusetts, NOAA and the Nature Conservancy have partnered with Massachusetts Audubon to restore oysters bed off the Cape. Oysters beds are like the ‘reefs of the northeast’ in that their complicated , craggy structures make home for lots of diverse sea life, [...] We got this nice note from The Oyster Project, an organization that advocates and blogs for restoration of Oysters in Massachusetts. We used to have lots of oysters in local waters. Now that the Merrimack is much cleaner than in the 1900’s why not bring them back? Why not starting a program to clean up [...] Among the Local Food choices that were available to our colonial predecessors were plentiful supply of sturgeon [ caviar anyone?] and oysters. Deborah Cramer, who wrote “Smithsonian Oceans” and was a guest at this years Newburyport Literary Festival told of a clipping from a London newspaper from the early 1700’s announcing a large shipment of [...] |
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