[HN Gopher] Stone Walls and Historical Harbors Are Unexpected Ha...
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Stone Walls and Historical Harbors Are Unexpected Havens of
Biodiversity
Author : benbreen
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-07-21 22:58 UTC (2 days ago)
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| DoreenMichele wrote:
| _The common blenny is an inshore fish that can spend brief
| periods out of the water, where it waits to surprise unsuspecting
| scientists._
|
| This article is _delightful_.
|
| I clicked through to the video in the last paragraph about
| ancient clam gardens. The events of The Irish Potato Famine[1]
| have been on my mind in recent weeks and I don't really know
| where to go with this thought rattling around in my head. But
| I've been thinking that if the Irish had somehow _supported_ clam
| digging for families in crisis due to the Potato Famine such that
| they didn 't eat them raw and end up sick, that could have gone
| differently.
|
| So it's interesting to see that clam gardens are being restored
| in my neck of the woods and that provides potential local food
| security to hedge against supply chain issues and other stresses
| in the world today.[2]
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36690467
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| [2] https://www.eopugetsound.org/magazine/climate-resilience-
| and...
| bobthepanda wrote:
| Generally speaking the issue is scale.
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| 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...
| mindracer wrote:
| Reminds of the scorpions living in a dock wall in Kent
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/07/09/scorp...
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