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danskjavlarna · 2 days

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Here's my modest collection of vintage oysters.

#oyster #hat #anthropomorphism #1900s #vintage illustration #illustration

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hellsitegenetics · 3 months

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE DOING IT ALL BY HAND??? LIKE BACKSPACING OUT EVERY LETTER BEFORE YOU SEARCH THE STRING???

String identified: AT A ' G T A A??? ACACG T TT AC T TG???

Closest match: Crassostrea gigas strain QD chromosome 2 Common name: Pacific oyster

#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #oyster #ocean

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moonandserpent · 1 year

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Seahorse pendant, the pouch is baroque pearl. After a lovely courtship ceremony, females deposit eggs to male seahorses' pouches and males carry the eggs and give birth.

#moon and serpent #handmade jewelry #artists on tumblr #seahorse #pregnant seahorse #mermaids #merfolk #genderqueer #nonbinary #mermaidcore #sea lover #ocean aesthetic #baroque pearl #seashell #oyster #molluscs #sea creatures #iridescent #white pearl

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png-magician · 6 months

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#png #pngs #shell #shells #oyster #sea trinkets #pearl #pearls #sea #ocean #seacore #oceancore #mermaidcore #mermaid #iridescent #trinkets #nautical

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tulipsofthemorning · 8 months

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in sailing, sometimes failing, that's the only way, the only way to fly.

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reasonsforhope · 4 months

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"Discarded shells from restaurants and hotels are being used to restore damaged oyster ecosystems, promote biodiversity and lower pollution in the city’s bays...

Nestled in between the South China Sea and the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong has been seen historically as an oyster hotspot. “They have been supporting our livelihood since ancient times,” says Anniqa Law Chung-kiu, a project manager at the Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Hong Kong. “Both oysters and their shells are treasures to humans.”

Over the past five decades, however, the city’s sprawling urban development, water pollution, as well as the over-harvesting and frequent seafloor dredging by the lime industry – which uses the crushed shells to make construction material – have destroyed Hong Kong’s oyster habitats and made the waters less hospitable for biodiversity.

The more oyster colonies falter, the worse the problem gets: oysters are filter feeders and purify water by gobbling up impurities. Just one Hong Kong oyster can filter up to 200 litres of water a day, more than any other known oyster species. But decades of rapid industrialisation have largely halted their water-purifying services.

The depletion of Hong Kong’s natural oyster reefs also affects the ability of local farmers to sustainably cultivate their oysters in a healthy environment, denting the reputation of the city’s 700-year oyster farming tradition, designated by Unesco as an “intangible cultural heritage”.

Inhabitants of the coast feel abandoned, says Ken Cheng Wai-kwan, the community leader of Ha Pak Nai on Hong Kong’s Deep Bay, facing the commercial city of Shenzhen in China. “This place is forgotten,” Cheng says. “Oysters have been rooted here for over 400 years. I ask the question: do we want to lose it, or not?”

A group of activists and scientists are taking up the challenge by collecting discarded oyster shells and recycling them to rebuild some of the reefs that have been destroyed and forgotten in the hope the oysters may make a comeback. They’ve selected locations around the island where data they’ve collected suggests ecosystems still have the potential to be rebooted, and there are still enough oyster larvae to recolonise and repopulate reefs. Ideally, this will have a positive effect on local biodiversity as a whole, and farming communities.

Farmers from Ha Pak Nai were among the first to hand over their discarded shells to the TNC team for recycling. Law’s team works with eight oyster farmers from Deep Bay to recycle up to 10 tonnes of shells every year [over 22,000 pounds]. They collect an average of 870kg every week [over 1,900 pounds] from 12 hotels, supermarkets, clubhouses and seafood restaurants in the city, including some of its most fashionable establishments. About 80 tonnes of shells [over 176,000 pounds] have been recycled since the project began in 2020.

Restaurants will soon be further incentivised to recycle the shells when Hong Kong introduces a new fee for waste removal – something that is routine in many countries, but only became law in Hong Kong in July and remains controversial...

Preliminary data shows some of the restored reefs have started to increase the levels of biodiversity, but more research is needed to determine to what extent they are contributing to the filtering of the water, says Law.

Scientists from the City University of Hong Kong are also looking to use oyster shells to increase biodiversity on the city’s concrete seawalls. They hope to provide tiny, wet shelter spots around the seawall in which organisms can find refuge during low tide.

“It’s a form of soft engineering, like a nature-based solution,” says Charlene Lai, a research assistant on the team."

-via The Guardian, December 22, 2023

#oyster #oyster farming #sea shells #seafood #hong kong #ecosystem restoration #biodiversity #ecosystem #water pollution #clean water #cultural heritage #marine life #marine animals #marine science #good news #hope

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catfindr · 11 days

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#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #oyster #nc #north carolina #mod note: a cat for the nonbineys : >

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fruitmaddie · 8 months

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the shrimplicity of this task was greatly oysterstated

#puns #as shrimple as that #meme #sea creatures #oyster #shrimp

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one-time-i-dreamt · 6 months

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I was in a group of people abducted by aliens and brought to their home world. In a desperate bid to win the aliens' approval, I cleaned the gutters for our communal living space and telepathically conversed with their giant sentient oyster.

#dream #alien #alien abduction #cleaning #telepathic #oyster

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oooocleo · 1 year

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#ffxiv #wol #my art #oyster #I just finished heavensward!#my in game outfit sucks…..

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sloppjockey · 1 year

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so I threw him into the sea. gouache watercolor

#painting #gouache #watercolor #art #dark art #horror #oyster #forest

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beatriceportinari · 10 months

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Oyster, origami, one square of paper. Loosely modelled on the black-lip pearl oyster.

#mine #origami #oyster #oystermash #original model by Roberto Morassi you can find the diagram in #Modelli di Roberto Morassi p. 35 #I say loosely modelled bc his own is just I suspect one of those generic 'pearl let loose on a scallop shell' type of imagery #now i have nothing against bathroom decor tackiness (evidently)#but I did want smth a bit closer to nature #I chose this type of oyster specifically bc I needed one with a round shell given the model I have and this one happened to be there #also I saw a cool picture of the flesh inside it so I had to recreate that with the additional folds created by the pearl #anyway enjoy! personally I think this fucks

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animentality · 1 year

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#kim kardashian #twitter #oyster #marilyn monroe #alexander mcqueen #fashion

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galina · 5 months

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It's been a cold, crisp, clear weekend. Pink evening light and a very light dusting of snow making everything glitter. We decided to stay in the city with our friends this year for the holidays. J surprised me by grabbing a huge tree from our local community stall. Anything to brighten these long dark winter nights ✨