The Massachusetts Oyster Project reports a growing number of local restaurants are saving their shucked shells so that they can be used to start new oyster beds in the harbor and nearby estuaries.
The shells provide the calcium young oysters need to grow as part of the Project's efforts to use oysters as natural filters to keep the harbor clean - not to raise slurpy goodness for local diners:
The flow in the Charles River flow is about 300 million gallons per day. Ten small beds of oysters 225 feet square (less than a football field) could cleanse this volume on a daily basis. Would this happen instantaneously? No.Would every gallon of flow be filtered? No.But can these Oysters improve the situation? Absolutely.
Additionally, the nooks and crannies of a reef support an incredible amount of sea life. So bringing back the reef and its rugosity can turn a barren desert-like sea-bottom into a lush biosphere.
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They should put...
By THE_WIZ
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 7:38am
oyster beds in the bathrooms of city hall.
...Quite a nutritive environment, I'd assume. Maybe to excess though. Who knows...
Animal Cruelty
By Nancy
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 8:06am
Why would you want to subject a poor, dead oyster to that? I know that it's just a shell of an Oyster Rockefeller but still, have some respect for animals. They deserve a better final resting place than City Hall.
It's a
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 10:42am
Shell game
There's more excrement in the council chamber
By tachometer
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 9:44am
Unfortunately it's of the aural variety so is not likely to be filtered by the oysters.
GREAT IDEA!
By Cappy
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 7:46am
The best way to create new oyster beds and to really get a lot of shells would be for there to be a law.
Make it mandatory that all restaurants provide us with not only a $1.00 oyster night once a week but also a 50 cent oyster night /day once a week.
Oh yeah, and free beer.
http://cappyinboston.blogspot.com/
New ballot initiative
By Alex_Toth
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 9:25am
$.05 / shell deposit on all raw bar purchases.
Did anyone notice a list of
By anon
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 9:33am
Did anyone notice a list of restaurants participating in this program? All I could find was apparently a list of new restaurants to join in.
Check out their web site
By Cappy
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 10:33am
The have a site here : http://www.massoyster.org/
Here is the friends of Mass Oyster: Island Creek, B&G and Harpoon are some of the places mentioned: http://www.massoyster.org/Friends_of_MOP.html
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/massoyster
Just call me Mr. Helpful
Thanks, Mr. Helpful.
By anon
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 12:08pm
Thanks, Mr. Helpful.
This link also mentions a few more places: http://www.massoyster.org/shell_recycling.html
This may come as a shock, but a non profit has a crappy, hard to navigate website.
There is nothing
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 10:43am
that beats the taste of a Deer Island Oyster.
Rocky Mountain Oysters!
By JimGaffigan
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 11:17am
Unless you have experienced the joys of a nice Rocky Mountain Oyster inside your mouth, you should not be allowed to comment.
Thats a whole other experience.
That
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 11:39am
takes balls.
No oyster bed restoration in Everett, at least for now
By Ron Newman
Wed, 11/19/2014 - 3:06pm
Wynn Resorts offered to restore an old oyster bed location in the Mystic River next to their Everett property, but the state said no, at least for the time being. (They mentioned this at their presentation to Mystic River Watershed Association at Tufts on October 28.)
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