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Many efforts have been made to promote forest conservation, afforestation and restoration on a global scale – such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report of 2018, which suggested that an increase of 1 billion hectares of forest will be necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2050.

“Science and appetite met at Bel Mare Restaurant in Springs on Sunday, November 3, at the first annual East Hampton Town Hatchery Oyster Tasting and Rating event. Attendees, mostly oyster gardeners for the project, volunteered to taste, compare, and rate pairs of oysters from four of our local harbors: Napeague, Hog Creek, Accabonac, and Three Mile. Rating categories included texture, sweetness, saltiness, and overall. Event organizer Harold Cook from Columbia University will be compiling the results. East Hampton Town Aquaculture Department director Barley Dunne explained the process of oyster seeding to the crowd.”‍

Shell It Out Hamptons event in East Hampton on 5-26-19. All photos by Rob Rich.

The New York Times samples a new wave of seaweed snacks and products.

Since the first pilot projects explored the idea of growing sugar kelp in Long Island waters in 2017, there has been an explosion of interest in this crop, a gourmet food whose uses are just beginning to be explored here.

The New York Times on oyster growing along the Croatian coast near Bosnia.

East Hampton Town will accept a $400,000 New York State Regional Economic Development Council grant, bringing the town closer to building its new aquaculture facility in Springs.‍The town board had been undecided on whether to accept the state money, which was awarded in December and requires a nearly $270,000 match from the town.

A plan to relocate East Hampton Town’s shellfish hatchery that envisions a combined educational center and exemplar of environmentalism and sustainability was unveiled at Town Hall on Tuesday, as a proposal to consolidate the hatchery and nursery at one site moved closer to fruition.

In Texas, that might call to mind your favorite raw bar or drum up memories of family vacations along the Gulf Coast. But there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to these underwater powerhouses. In addition to filtering water and promoting marine biodiversity, oyster shells have long been used as livestock feed, in manufacturing and as paving material—the Houston Astrodome alone used 500,000 cubic yards of oyster shells to construct its stadium and parking lot.