Sentences with phrase «oyster farmers in»

Consider oyster farmers in the Pacific Northwest, who have seen over 90 percent of their oyster «spat» (their term for baby oysters) die off when corrosive waters upwell from the deep Pacific onto the continental shelf.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

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Erickson has since become vocal opponent of net - pen fish farming in Washington State, and she has rallied to stop oyster farmers from using pesticides.

West coast Hog Island Oyster Co. will join farmers from Island Creek Oyster in a celebration of the bivalve.

She has also written blog posts on Medium.com, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that generated more than 800 questions, and engages regularly with oyster farmers to better understand the impacts of ocean acidification on shellfish farming.

In 2009, seeking to attract investment and rebuild its oyster industry, Maryland changed its leasing laws and made it easier for new oyster farmers to get a plot.

Boutique farmers, insatiable market More than 350 oyster farmers now cultivate bottom leases in the shallow waters along the Northeastern seaboard, according to the Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center, up from handfuls 25 years ago.

From an oyster farmer at Barilla Bay in Tasmania and a local choir from the Blue Mountains, to famous artists like Katie Noonan, Van She, Eskimo Joe and Cut Copy, Australians have come together to pay tribute to beautiful destinations across the country and reconnect with the Australian landscape through music.

I suppose that all the oyster farmers and fishermen in Louisiana don't count because they aren't «real people» who have pensions.

And as the oil spill lurched toward the Mississippi Delta yesterday, containment efforts became a foremost concern: At stake are the livelihoods of oyster farmers, shrimp harvesters, and anyone who relies on the areas large tourism industry, just to name a few, as well as the fragile ecosystem of this area, including endangered Bluefin tuna who come to this area in springtime to spawn.

In addition, Alaska oyster farmers are now indirectly affected by ocean acidification impacts farther south because they rely on oyster spat (attached oyster larvae) from Puget Sound farmers who are now directly affected by the recent upwelling of acidic waters along the Washington and Oregon coastline (Ch.

In Washington and Oregon, oysters farms are in coastal Pacific waters where upwelling currents are bringing up cold, deep water with higher amounts of CO2 and a more acidic pH. Watch and listen to two oyster farmers from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington state talk how about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysterIn Washington and Oregon, oysters farms are in coastal Pacific waters where upwelling currents are bringing up cold, deep water with higher amounts of CO2 and a more acidic pH. Watch and listen to two oyster farmers from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington state talk how about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysterin coastal Pacific waters where upwelling currents are bringing up cold, deep water with higher amounts of CO2 and a more acidic pH. Watch and listen to two oyster farmers from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington state talk how about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysterin Washington state talk how about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysters.