[SEMCO] Marine Extension Bulletin Now Available - "Shellfish, Nitrogen and the Health of our Coastal Waters"

[Jeffrey M. Brodeur]

Now available from Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, the marine extension bulletin “Shellfish, Nitrogen and the Health of Our Coastal Waters” serves to summarize the often confusing potential for shellfish to be used as part of a plan to mitigate the effects of excess nutrients in coastal waters.  Cape Cod in particular is grappling with the potentially enormous costs of reducing the nutrient load to coastal waters and all options are up for discussion. 

Shellfish are natural inhabitants of coastal waters and through their normal feeding activity are involved in cycling and incorporating nutrients through their food.  This four-page bulletin discusses the potential, and also the challenges to using shellfish production as part of a nutrient reduction plan. 

Available as a pdf by visiting www.whoi.edu/seagrant or www.capecodextension.org/marine-programs/publications/.

For a hard copy, please email seagrant at whoi.edu.

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