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What do you do with 50,000 live oysters?

By adamg on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 5:40pm

You pour them into Boston Harbor from Commercial Street in the hopes they'll establish a colony and help clean up Boston Harbor.

Massachusetts Oyster Project - which has already placed 150,000 oysters in the harbor by the mouth of the Charles.

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By J on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 5:59pm.

There was an article in the washington post this summer about how successful this has been in either virginia or maryland (the other state was going to copy the plan)

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By Laurence Glavin on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 1:15pm.

This sounds like a bivalve job.

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By adamg on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 2:02pm.

That would explain why people are clamming up.

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