Just outside New York City, new projects promise to clean the water while raising sustainable seafood

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Just outside New York City, new projects promise to clean the water while raising sustainable seafood

Ron Gautreau Aquaculture projects in Long Island Sound, like the one run by the author (pictured above), are growing seaweed, mussels, and scallops stacked above oysters and clams. They’re back: Blue mussels and menhaden have returned to Long Island Sound this year in huge numbers. On this 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, many of us are celebrating their homecoming as a sign of the progress made reviving the sound. More needs to be done, but this welcome news of cleaner waters opens the opportunity to begin farming the urban sea. Aquaculture has rightly earned a reputation for growing low-quality seafood at the expense of the environment , but a new form of ocean-friendly farming has emerged right outside of New York City. These small-scale vertical farms — some of the first in the country — are designed to grow multiple species of seaweed and shellfish, have small...

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@restorm » 04 Nov '12, 10pm
Restoring & Farming the Urban Sea: Mussels & menhaden return to L.I. Sound in huge numbers. [link]
@twyspy » 16 Oct '12, 11pm
@Nuveshen I like where you're going with that. We ran a piece about a similar effort here: [link]
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Pls. #FollowAnyDay @RayBeckerman Farming the Urban Sea ~ #drgrist #eco [link]
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RT @ocean_wise: #Aquaculture that is restoring rather than depleting & providing local seafood options to New York city [link]
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#Aquaculture that is restoring rather than depleting & providing local seafood options to New York city [link]
@permacultureavl » 14 Oct '12, 10pm
Stacking functions, obtaining multiple yeilds + restoring the Sound. Great! RT @grist Farming the urban sea [link]
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MT @Cocoxochitl & @grist: Just outside NYC, new projects promise to clean the water while raising sustainable seafood: [link]
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@carbontalks » 13 Oct '12, 8pm
Check out this new kind of urban farm, its in the sea! [link]
@DWHauthor » 13 Oct '12, 8pm
Interesting return of shellfish harvest and "ocean farming" to NYC area [link]
@RustyBrown47 » 13 Oct '12, 12pm
RT @Waterkeeper: Clean Water Act's 40th anniversary gift- return of Blue mussels and menhaden to Long Island Sound in huge numbers. [link]
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Clean Water Act's 40th anniversary gift- return of Blue mussels and menhaden to Long Island Sound in huge numbers. [link]
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New policies are making #aquafarming more #sustainable - and bringing back the fish. [link] via @grist
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All of the fun of farming without the shame of wearing overalls! [link]
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RT @greenforall: You've heard about the benefits of urban farming, but what about urban farming IN THE SEA? | [link]
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You've heard about the benefits of urban farming, but what about urban farming IN THE SEA? | [link]
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RT @4fishgreenberg: A swell guy I've had the pleasure of visiting at his oyster farm has this good piece in Grist on farming the urban sea [link]
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A swell guy I've had the pleasure of visiting at his oyster farm has this good piece in Grist on farming the urban sea [link]
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A great article on innovation in sustainable aquaculture @grist: Farming the urban sea [link]"
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Great article on farming the sea - we support responsible domestic aquaculture! [link]
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New urban aquaculture aims at purifying the water around it while it also has the capability to produce energy. [link]
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