New York harbor will be saved with oysters

The harbor of New York will be saved with the help of oysters.
Photo: www.billionoysterproject.org

New Yorkers eat about half a million oysters at local restaurants every week. But most of them do not even realize that the empty shells will be sent to help the city, writes Observer.

Oysters act as natural water filters, providing habitat for other marine species and muffling wave energy.

Billion Oysters is a project aimed at restoring the oyster population in the city's harbor and creating an oyster reef to clean the water and control waves; he projects that a billion live oysters could be restored by 2030.

Shells from local restaurants are used to grow new oysters.

“The Billion Oyster Project aims to restore a sustainable oyster population and ignite community interest in the harbor by getting them directly involved in saving it,” said project director Pete Malinowski.

To date, project participants have processed 113 556 kg of shells and restored more than 17 million oysters.

Over the past century, harbor water has been severely affected by emissions and navigation, scientists expect to restore the ecosystem with the help of oysters.

Currently, more than 50 restaurants in the city have joined the project; In addition, special social events are organized in the city, where guests are fed oysters for the sake of shells.

The decision to create protective structures for the coastal areas of New York was made after 2012 had caused significant damage to Sandy in the city. The US Army Corps of Engineers will have to build a massive dam, but work on it will begin no earlier than 2018 of the year.

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