Consider The Oyster (and Ocean Farming)
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 19:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
There are cynics who see only catastrophic answers to Earth's population explosion: War and pestilence come to mind. Then there are those who look a little deeper. Not even two feet deep, to be precise, into the placid tidal pools dotting the world's coastlines. It is on a coastal flat in the Pacific Northwest, that marine biologists are pinning their hopes on the quest for bigger and faster-growing oysters.