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New York seeks to claw back 'Big Oyster' past

China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-27 07:53

NEW YORK - One sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed.

Why? To build an oyster reef.

The goal? To restore a billion oysters by 2035 to the largest city in the United States - not as a delicacy for the dinner table but in an environmental bid to clean up its notoriously filthy harbor water and generate greater biodiversity.

New York seeks to claw back 'Big Oyster' past

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