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Generally speaking the issue is scale.

Oysters are also currently being restored in New York. They had largely disappeared and one of the reasons was over-consumption; at one point there were a billion oysters being harvested per year. The current goal is to just get back to one billion at all. https://untappedcities.com/2022/08/04/history-new-york-oyste...



Oysters love organic pollution.

Pipe some sewage into a bit of shallow sea with a rocky seafloor and in a matter of months you'll have a billion oysters.

The best oyster farms grow kinda close to sewage outlets...


The problem was that until recent decades, New York harbor was so full of pollution it was overwhelming the oysters. (19 million people's worth of sewage and runoff is a lot.)

A couple of large investments into waste treatment plants and now it is slowly getting back on its feet.




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