#oysters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oysters, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦦🗽 A camera captured the first river otter sighting in the #Bronx River in over a century.
Once treated as a city dumping ground, the #waterway lost #otters and #beavers to #pollution and #habitat loss. Decades of cleanup restored #oysters and beavers, now joined by this otter signaling active #ecosystem recovery.
👉 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/otter-bronx-river-new-york-city
#riverotter #bronxriver #conservation #wildlife #animals #water #restoration #newyork #nyc #urban #cleanwateract #nature #environment
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"Sink Your Shucks™
Oyster Recycling Program
https://www.harteresearch.org/oysterrecycling#SolarPunkSunday #SinkYourShucks #Oysters #Recycling #FoodWaste #Food #Waste
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Have been caught up lately, doing good things but alternately busy and tired, sometimes both.
Took these pics on the way to an appointment in town yesterday. The creek/stormwater drain level was lower than usual when i walked past (maybe a lower tide - it's close to the harbour), exposing a heap of oysters who'd decided urban life was for them. #NewcastleNSW #oysters
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New research has revealed that restored oyster reefs capture and bury much more nitrogen pollution than scientists had previously measured. 🦪🌊
Find out more ⬇️
https://veganfta.com/articles/2026/07/10/oyster-reefs-found-to-capture-far-more-nitrogen-than-expected/
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Oysters&Martini again...
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#aperitivo
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#Martini
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Oyster Reefs Sequester Nitrogen
The US eastern seaboard was once blanketed with oyster beds, but overharvesting, pollution, and habitat destruction decimated the population. As filter-feeders, oysters are naturally good at cleaning intertidal zones, and the reefs they build by cementing themselves to one another provide valuable habitat for many species of fish. A new study shows that oysters are even more economically valuable than we knew, thanks to their ability to sequester nitrogen.
Agricultural and industrial run-off carries nitrates into the ocean in high concentrations that trigger deadly phytoplankton blooms, which choke off oxygen levels for larger species like fish. One way to reduce nitrogen levels in the water is denitrification, a process where microbes break down the nitrate into, among other things, inert nitrogen gas. The surface of oyster reefs is one place where this happens. But nitrates that evade these microbes can also get trapped and buried by a growing oyster reef.
To understand how much nitrogen an oyster reef can bury, researchers studied cores removed from restored oyster beds. Below the top ten centimeters (where microbes do their denitrification), nitrogen levels in the oysters increased, with a square meter of oyster reef, on average, sequestering 6 grams of nitrogen per year, comparable to the amount that microbes removed. But some oyster reefs outperformed others. In particular, intertidal flat reefs–which grow faster–buried more than twice the nitrogen of subtidal reefs.
The team estimated that, in North Carolina’s Carteret County, oyster reefs sequester some 120,000 kilograms of nitrogen annually, at an economic value of over $3 million. (Image credit: J. Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill; research credit: A. Smiley et al.; via Eos)
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tomorrow the magic link for my #oysters feature will turn into a pumpkin, so catch it now:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-about-oysters.html
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Today is a better Thursday than most for any USians out there, because - hear me out - while it is true that you might live in a dystopian fascist hellscape where an ageing oligarchic minority is slowly but surely reshaping your future into one of unending indentured wage slavery - which I agree is pretty bad... at least tomorrow is Juneteenth!
There are also #UnsolicitedNoods! Today's bowl of #momofuku #noodles features lots of #broccoli, #scallions, #oysters, and #cilantro.
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17-Jun-2026
Farmed #oysters may help replenish #NewYork’s dwindling wild populationshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132620
see also my recent feature about restoration of oyster reefs (4 days left before the magic link turns into a pumpkin): https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-about-oysters.html
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Recreational shellfish harvesters should be extra careful when collecting #oysters this weekend and next week to reduce their risk of illness. High temperatures are expected during the lowest tides of the year, creating conditions that can allow #Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria to grow quickly in oysters and increase the risk of illness from eating them raw or undercooked.
https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/high-temperatures-and-lowest-tides-year-can-be-recipe-illness
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#Trees, #grasses, #corals, and #oysters are foundational to the structure of an #ecosystem while they are alive. But new research shows that when they die — due to extreme events like storms, wildfires, or marine heatwaves — the physical remains of these species continue shaping the ecosystem.
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Poblacion seafood restaurant responds to diner’s ‘food poisoning’ complaint
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"Over 200 Volunteers Lead Largest-Ever Oyster Reef Restoration Off England’s Portsmouth"
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@NationCymru “Despite their small size, oysters make a big impact. Each adult oyster is capable of filtering approximately 200 litres of water a day – around a bathtub’s worth – helping to improve water quality and clarity” #oysters
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🦪🧱 Researchers at #Purdue found a way to replicate the #chemistry of #oyster glue in #concrete. Their biomimetic material is 10x stronger than traditional cement and provides a sustainable, #petroleum-free alternative.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/concrete-made-from-oysters/
#science #engineering #oysters #biomimicry #sustainability #nature #research #technology #tech
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my features published in @CurrentBiology this year, issue 9: Why the shells of the #oysters we eat should be returned to the sea.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-about-oysters.html #science #ecology #ecosystem #restoration #marineBiology #environment
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Oysters have such amazing zig-zag shells! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../low-tide-sampler.html #VancouverIsland #Oysters #InverteFest #Molluscs #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
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"More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project"
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17-Apr-2026
Want to restore #oysterReefs? Find a site where they don’t wash away or become buried under the sand! -
Number Four of the Tokaido (1850) by Utagawa Hiroshige.
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5bbf823a-cfd9-4c04-b224-cb94f07f60d5
#whales #ukiyo-e #japan #montage #oysters #art #publicdomain
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"Dublin Bay Oyster Restoration Brings Native Shellfish Back After 200 Years"
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‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/31/japan-oysters-dying-death-rate-warming-seas-hiroshima
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‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/31/japan-oysters-dying-death-rate-warming-seas-hiroshima #Oysters #Japan #ClimateCrisis #Fishing #FishingIndustry #Oceans #MarineLife #AsiaPacific #Environment #Food #WorldNews #Business #Animals #Wildlife #FoodDrinkIndustry
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Shore Daily News: New tool to track oyster trends. “What sets this version apart is its interactivity. Instead of static charts, users can explore a live map with a time slider, watching oyster populations change year by year. The system allows users to zoom in from the bay level to individual reefs, and switch between data layers like juvenile oysters, market-size oysters, and shell volume.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/28/shore-daily-news-new-tool-to-track-oyster-trends/ -
Visiting big Auntie with Mom before heading off to set up for UVIC Campus Community Garden Spring Market. Auntie's husband harvested oysters & sea snails with his friend, late last night. I haven't had sea snails in almost a decade. We eat them with 2 different dipping sauces - nuoc cham sauce with lemon & garlic butter sauce.
#Seafood #shellfish #oysters #SeaSnails #Food #SeafoodHarvest #WildFoods #VancouverIsland #PNW #SalishSeaFoods #AsianMastodon
