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Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life.
Mussel farming provides a sustainable alternative protein source for human diets, because mussels filter feed on plankton and do not have to be fed wild-caught fish.
Researchers have found that one offshore mussel farm is boosting marine biodiversity and regenerating the seabed.
The Conversation UK · Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life.
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#DomoicAcid can also accumulate in #shellfish & small #fish that feed on the #algae, leading to poisoning in larger #marine animals & humans who consume contaminated #seafood.
Addressing the urgent need to monitor the impact of harmful #AlgalBlooms on #MarineSpecies requires collective strategies. The destructive #California #wildfires, which have contaminated our #oceans & are threatening #MarineLife, serve as a critical call to action for collaborative efforts to protect marine environments….
I ate 2 lbs of manilla #clams by myself over last weekend. My dipping sauces: nuoc cham & finely minced garlic with butter.
Thrifty Foods on Admirals Rd. sells farmed manilla clams from the Fanny Bay Seafood company up island.
Joined a tasting of shellfish products from cell culture
South Korean company CellMeat visiting ORF GENETICS
Splendid tasting and texture
Have plenty of questions about cell biology and growth Chambers.
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"Spanish fishers in #Galicia — Europe’s main source of #shellfish and the biggest producer of #mussels in the world — are reporting a “catastrophic” collapse in shellfish populations due to the #climate crisis.
Some shellfish stocks have plummeted by 90 percent in just a few years."
https://www.ecowatch.com/spain-shellfish-population-collapse-climate-change.html
EcoWatch · Spanish Fishers in Galicia Say Shellfish Stocks Are Collapsing Due to Climate Change
We picked up 2lbs of manilla #clams from #FannyBaySeafoodStore in #UnionBay by Denman/Hornby Islands ferry & ate them all on our first night at cabin last week. We had butter & garlic plus nuoc cham with lime juice & chili sauce for dipping. It was so good.
Cost us just over $20.
There was many types of #ClamShells & much #diversity of beautiful & edible #seaweeds washed up on highbanks, post windstorm.
There's over 100 different types of seaweeds found along the coasts of Vancouver Island. There's 6 types of clams found on beaches of the island.
I steamed up some #clams before midnight
Ate bunch of them with chili nuoc cham sauce with lots of lime juice added. These ones are from up island - bought from local vendor. They're littlenecks & manillas - really common on our island beaches.
I'm going clam digging & oyster harvesting next week - up island.
Need to lookup the effect on #raccoons eating #shellfish (mostly #RibbedMussels loaded with heavy metals and who knows what else.
#Vibrio coralliilyticus is a pathogen of #coral & #shellfish. @DrDorSalomon &co show it has two #T6SS systems that are activated at high temperatures. One targets bacterial rivals; the other launches 9 novel toxins against eukaryotic hosts #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3Tvxw2B
Warning has spread to #ScarboroughMaine as well...
#Fecal #contamination fears shut down #shellfish harvesting in Southern #Maine after rainfall
Maine Public | By Nick Song
Published August 5, 2024
"Bryant Lewis, a scientist for Maine DMR, said heavy #StormRunoff picks up feces from wildlife on land and washes them into parts of the ocean where shellfish feed.
"'The shellfish are going to accumulate that fecal contamination as their filter feeding, so people could potentially get sick off of eating,' Lewis said. 'So this is very different than waters dirty for swimming or for any other use. This is really specific to eating shellfish.'
"The closure lasts until the department lifts the order, which Lewis said should be in three or four days. The department automatically issues closures after a harvesting area experiences two or more inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period. Lewis said the department issued more than a dozen such flood closures last summer.
"#FreeportMaine experienced 2.77 inches of rain from Saturday to Sunday according to the National Weather Service in Gray.
"'After you get that level of rainfall, that water will cause a lot of runoff,' Lewis said. "So those closures only last for a few days as a precaution because of that increased fecal contamination [risk]."
WMEH · Fecal contamination fears shut down shellfish harvesting in Southern Maine after rainfall
#FlashbackFriday.
2021.
Digging for #clams near #UnionBay on #VancouverIsland.
The #ClamGardens #RestorationProject has reclaimed #W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, improved #ecosystems and provided the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation with additional funding.
From 2014 to 2019, #ParksCanada, the #W̱SÁNEĆNation and the #Hulquminum #FirstNations participated in the Clam Garden Restoration project.
Clam gardens are #AncientSites along shorelines in W̱SÁNEĆ territory that #Indigenous people tended for thousands of years to enhance the production of #clams and related sea creatures. Clams were an important source of protein for W̱SÁNEĆ people. The Clam Restoration project spent 5 years working to restore clam gardens in W̱SÁNEĆ territory. In addition to improving the #ecology of two clam gardens, the project also aimed to reclaim W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, practices and culture related to clam gardens.
Learn more & sign up to help out:
https://wsanec.com/the-clam-garden-restoration-project/
Infographic from the Shellfish Museum in PEI. I learned a lot of things about shellfish today. Oysters can change sex throughout their life, so you do you. #oyster #SexChange #bivalve #mollusc #shellfish #biology #OysterPorn
On the Power of a Salt Marsh
https://orionmagazine.org/article/salt-marsh-restoration-giacomini-wetland/
"#SaltMarshes are enormous #carbon sinks, so when left intact they literally bury #GreenhouseGases, disallowing them the chance to reach the atmosphere. They play critical roles in protecting coastal communities from storm surges, dampening the force of now familiar #ExtremeWeather events. Salt #marshes also cycle #nitrogen, as well as provide irreplaceable habitat and nurseries for many #shorebirds, #fish, #shellfish, and other species."
The #CowichanRiver #estuary is one of the largest & most important in #BritishColumbia. The #watershed drains 90,000 hectares & provides #CriticalHabitat to dozens of #fish species, including #steelhead, #Chinook, #chum, #coho & #PinkSalmon, as well as brown, #cutthroat & #RainbowTrout. But the #Cowichan’s troubles are by no means unique; they are a #CaseStudy for a much larger problem.
#TimberCompanies store #LogBooms all along the #BCcoast, says Jamieson Atkinson, a fish #biologist & program manager for the #Aquatic #Research & #Restoration Centre at #BritishColumbiaConservationFoundation. “It’s shocking.” While #estuaries make up less than 3% of British Columbia’s coast, they provide rich #habitat for 80% of the province’s coastal #wildlife. The #FraserRiver estuary, near #Vancouver on the mainland, supports more than 300 species of #birds & 80 species of fish & #shellfish for at least part of their life cycles.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/07/05/Estuary-Marine-Life-Smothered-Timber-Industrial-Log-Booms
The Tyee · The Estuary Smothered by a Thousand Industrial Logs | The Tyee