Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters

Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by nextweek2 on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:43AM (#18960304)

This is alluded to in the article, they want wild oysters to join the population. Most likely to increase genetic diversity.

I would imagine this is a good start, people can identify with oysters and they can then start to use funding to diversify the biosphere down the line.

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Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:42AM (#18961486)

> they want wild oysters to join the population.

I assumed that these oysters were grown by locating a rare wild oyster, or two, and having them spawn in captivity, producing huge numbers of offspring in a generation or two.

So they would be "wild oysters" genetically speaking. Although less genetically diverse than the whole wild population.

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