Pages tagged Scotland
Environment & Sustainability
Bringing Back the Flat Oyster
Europe's native oyster reefs once covered millions of hectares. A continent-wide effort is now rebuilding them, one disease-screened oyster at a time.
Environment & Sustainability
Scotland's Seabed Machine: The Oyster Wave Converter
A 200-metric-ton hinged flap bolted to the Orkney seabed made electricity from waves for six years. The technology worked, but the money ran out.
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Loch Fyne
The Scottish oyster farm that became a restaurant name across Britain, still growing Pacific oysters on the Ardkinglas shore at the head of the loch.
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Loch Ryan Native
Wild flat oysters from a Scottish loch granted to one family in 1701, dredged by two fishermen who return the small ones to rebuild the beds.