Sentences with phrase «shellfish hatcheries»

I was working on a brief describing the impacts of climate change in our state of Oregon, knowing that shellfish hatcheries collapsed between 2004 and 2009 due to ocean acidification and someday soon, our local supply of oysters will be gone, as those fishery operations close shop.

Shellfish hatcheries are now altering water chemistry to create more favorable saturation state conditions for young bivalves.

Key to this effort has been the operation of a solar - assisted shellfish hatchery, the application of innovative aquaculture technology and a continuing vigilance to improve and maintain the good surface water quality crucial to a viable shellfish industry.

The Independence Party also endorsed the Democrats Rick Drew and Bill Taylor, both incumbents and the trustees» two deputy clerks, as well as Rona Klopman, a former candidate for trustee, and John Aldred, a new candidate who had been the director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery.

«Our shellfish hatchery got a $ 400,000 grant from New York State to grow out more shellfish,» which will help filter excess nutrients from the water, she said.

Both Taylor Shellfish and Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Ore., witnessed oyster larvae die - offs that they couldn't explain and that continued for years.

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And the numbers are impressive: $ 10.4 million to purchase adult shellfish and expand or build public hatcheries to get them to spawn and produce juveniles, and 179 million clams and oysters to be seeded in five impaired water bodies over the next two years.

Ocean acidification is already responsible for declines in hatchery production in Washington's Pacific inlets, posing a major threat to the state's shellfish industry.