by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 10, 2020 | News, Research, Students, Sustainable Seafood, Uncategorized
Courtesty of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America If you need to clean up a waterway, plant an oyster farm. Oysters have been shown to improve water quality by removing nitrogen and other nutrients that in...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 30, 2019 | News
A New Study on How Eating More Oysters Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions If Americans replaced 10% of their meat consumption with oysters, the greenhouse gas savings would be the equivalent of keeping nearly 11 million cars off of the road, according to a new...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 8, 2019 | Coastal Communities, Events, Research, Uncategorized
One single oyster can filter about 50 gallons of water per day. This kind of filtering power is being looked at by researchers as a potential solution to absorb harmful amounts of nitrogen entering coastal waters via wastewater treatment facilities and stormwater...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Robert “Skid” Rheault, executive director of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, and Perry Raso, owner of Matunuck Oyster Bar, describe the “meroir” – the unique taste – of oysters. “It’s like terroir, what we know about...