Why we need more of these ASAP
No head, no advanced central nervous system, but a lot of power. These ocean heroes are great for the climate and we need more of them ASAP.
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: In the video, at 01:08, we mention that oysters have no organs. This is not true. Oysters do have organs and a heart, although they do not have an advanced central nervous system.
Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
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Video Editors: Amanda Coulson-Drasner, Freddy Willmann
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #Oysters #OceanRestoration
Read More:
Mussels in the Great Lakes:
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...
Oyster reef habitats:
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/nation...
Loss of oyster reefs:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25588...
Billion Oyster Project:
www.billionoysterproject.org/
Mussels in South Africa: www.wwf.org.za/our_news/our_b...
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:33 Background
01:55 Filtering
03:40 Reefs
04:41 Protecting coastlines
05:11 Farming
07:15 Restoration
08:14 Conclusion
Woooooo, I am doing a PhD in environmental engineering focused on restorative and recirculating aquaculture. Please keep making content like this and reach out to me at UMBC if you have any questions about aquaculture or aquatic ecosystems!
I don't think DW will see your comment but sure I will reach out, what is your email?
Is it a lot of schooling? Thinking about doing this as a career as well
I am trying to get into IMTA, can you give me a way to contact you?
@@britneyb8876 No. Look up the organization Greenwave.
@@britneyb8876 It is, but it's worth it
What part of the US puts oysters in vodka? I've never seen this anywhere
She is a monster
Same
Probably at her parents home
I was wondering, as well. 🤔
Oyster shooters!! My guess is that it's a New England thing?
One thing DW missed is that the best location for the shells of consumed oysters is back into the water (and tidal height) they were harvested or naturally grow in. This creates a growing environment where free floating baby shellfish who are evolved to latch onto shells can further build the ecosystem in a positive feedback loop. Plus this increases the availability of calcium and other minerals present in shells for other shellfish to absorb over time. TLDR put empty shells back in ocean where they naturally grow... don't try the greenwash "cyclical" composting or manufacturing as they are likely worse for the environment
yea, u pay for the return shipping fee
i think you missed it at 7:08
yea, they definitely cover this in the video
Discussing their uses and how they're more sustainable than what we've previously been doing isn't "greenwashing" anything.
@@mervynlarrier9424 well, it certainly can be. If, in the end, the practice is still unsustainable (just slightly more sustainable) it's in the category of greenwashing.
DW Planet A is such a great project. Really hoping for a big expansion of oyster and mussel cultivating
Bivalves are a superfood in every sense. We farm mussels in the open ocean and have seen so many environmental benefits to the surrounding marine ecosystem.
we farm mussels (clams, oysters, mussels) in the tidal zones, not the open ocean.
Please name the ecological systems helped by more shells?
That's a great video pointing to solutions, not problems. Well done!
It starts with a clear understanding of the problems themselves though. It's just that we rarely move on from there.
Solution is useless without a problem.
You can also get bogged down in doing nothing when you feel overwhelmed by problems.
I've been doing Climate Change since the 70s, and, if Humans refuse to Clean up our garbage, We aren't doing anything to save the Humans.
@@ToneyCrimson what's that? Anyway, this addition made me giggle. Best of luck, to you. ✌
Pessimistic people may think it's naïve, but This is the Climate/pollution Optimism we all need right now
Awesome video. It’s so important to remember that we need to not only reduce our over consumption but ALSO do projects like this in order to repair the ecosystems which we have destroyed! P.S. I had plant based tuna for the first time the other day and was floored! I honestly thought they gave me real tuna by mistake at first!
Yeah veggie tuna is surprisingly good
@@madebymarian I wasn’t sure what the base thing was that it was made out of. Kind of assuming seitan since it had a really great texture for biting. Slightly unrelated: I’ve found that seitan works amazingly well in dishes with Chinese marinade. If I close my eyes while eating it I could totally believe that I grabbed dinner from Panda Express that night.
Harvesting maricultured Mussels and Oysters; then Cleaning (with Tap Water), Recycling, and Reusing the Shells as Substrate to Farm more Shellfish is a Nature-assisted method of removing Carbon from Seawater (and Indirectly from the Atmosphere).
What happens to the chemicals that the bivalves filter? Do they get broken down and aren't harmful anymore? Do they stay in the little shell animals?
Depends. But if it's heavy metals, yup they stay there.
That's why depuration process is important. Depuration help to remove all contaminants from the shellfish, including the heavy metals. By putting the shellfish in a clean seawater runoff, we can take advantage of their natural ability of filtering to remove contaminant from their intestine.
That is why you should only eat oysters from clean water.
@@JS-hh9zs What about micro plastics?
@@jmd1743 heavy metals is much much smaller than micro plastic particles. Pretty sure it also got filtered out.
This is a good initiative, but in addition bottom trawling for fishing has to be stopped. It is damaging the existing ecosystems of the ocean floor. Sure, we need to restore the ocean habitats, but first we have to stop the destruction of what we already have.
Great video, hope ppl become more and more aware of this and start acting in earnest🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻✌
What other animals have surprisingly large impacts on nature? Are there any special creatures where you live?
Idaho hock it eats the invasive rabbits but well the rabbits are still growing unfortunately.
Sphagnum Moss in Irish raised bogs.
The desert eagle. Quite effective in controlling overpopulation. 😉😉😉
I would say human. But unlike oysters, more humans will not solve the problem.
did you do any videos on beavers for restoring watersheds?
Super nice , plz continue the videos are very helpfull to connect to the human society we live in atm who doesn't know what we do to the mother earth.....
Great content! Much thanks for providing useful links in the description. You must've read my mind, Lol 💙✌️😎🌎
Wow well done people and oysters alike!! 😇
Some people use filters feeding mussels to filter their greywater
That's a great idea!
Yeah! They can use the water for their plants or return it to underground water supplies
Thanks I love acquaculture as engineer and study oceanography , bioinformatic in sponge cities and ports . Aquaculture and cozze are the future , of course.
Thanks for creating this video on bivalves and how they fit in to life. Survival of the fittest, species that fit in best.
My country keeps popping up in these vids. I love it.
They didn’t mention that scallops have many eyes on stalks around the edges of their shells and they can swim to avoid predators.
Thank you
Great video , love your soothing voice!
Great video!
Buen trabajo! Gracias
awesome. lot of video around seeweed, kelp and oyster
What about those polluted rivers? Can those shell life creatures alter the ecosystem of any rivers for good?
There are freshwater shellfish species that could maybe help
The example of the Chesapeake Bay includes some river areas. There are species specific to different environments. The ubiquitous bivalve! 💜
Guess what, the highly destructive and invasive freshwater zebra mussel does just that! We've already completely destroyed the populations of our native bivalves that are much more sensitive to pollutants, and these guys are coming in to take over. Of course, they are so good at reproducing and cleaning that they will completely change ecosystems, which would also kill all of their inhabitants and bring in new ones that can live there.
Nice informative video 👍
Good stuff👍
Great video. Congratulations. 👏👏👏
We have a place down here (Captain Hiram's, Sebastian Florida) that serves oyster shots. A raw oyster with vodka and bloody Mary mix. Definitely a favorite when I visit. 😎🍻 Great video that many people need to see. I'll be sharing. Thank you!
the first person to have eaten an oyster must have been really, really hungry. Imagine you had never heard of oysters and someone put a live molusc, with grey flesh coated in a thin layer of mucus, squirming in its lumpy shell. It smelled very fishy and you heard "these things are fantastic at sucking tons and tons of pollution out of the water every day!" would you eat it?
There a great place that raises oysters in a section in the ocean and they collect pearls without damaging or killing the oysters
Where or what company? I've seen some videos of pearl oyster farming that made me feel bad for the oysters.
You all need to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress
I use it it’s really amazing what they’re doing
@@ryanbrimson8238 I know dw has already done a documentary about Ecosia but this dw Channel has not talked out them it seems like something right up there ally
@@aarononeal9830 yea like something as simple as a search engine company that has planted about 150 million trees really should be getting more global recognition
@@ryanbrimson8238 I know every major media outlet needs to be talking about this it seem like such an easy story
If bivalves are so good at filtering, is it possible that we could use them in water treatment plants as a way to cut down on chemical sterilizers? Perhaps also in water recycling and desalination?
Oysters don't desalinated water, I don't think oysters are going to be good enough to get rid of all the chemicals to be brought back to the environment, and they don't desalinate water, if they did, the ocean wouldn't be what it is today.
Very awsome video.
Amazing, congratulations to all,,the people creating this enterprise!, I am inspired!!
I've never put an oyster in Vodka but I'm going to try that next time I get the chance. Thanks for the great idea
I’m American and I’ve never heard of putting oysters in vodka. Horseradish and lemon juice for me, please!
Very cool!
I am from Ghana, we need 100 trillion of these in the korle gonno (one of the dirtiest water body in the world)
We should build those everywhere erosion happens and also mangrove trees
oysters are my favorite food would love to see more of them
Thai people told me that 30 years ago: mussels are the liver of the sea. Glad I never ate them.
@Tommy Taffy thank you, english is not my native language.
You could eat them, if sustainably farmed. They're delicious. It's just very unfortunate that we seem to be able to do barely anything sustainable..
I've been studying only the animals for school (amazing text highly recommended) and one of the stories is about mussels so it was kinda scary seeing this in recommended but hey I like learning about this things more they're really interesting and cool creatures that are rather unappreciated
How about sponges? Do they also function similar to bivales?
Great question! Sponges also filter water but they have special traits in their own way. We’re considering reporting on sponges in the coming months. Be sure to subscribe - we put out new videos every Friday. 🙃
They do, but they don't really have meat so won't be quite as efficient. Still they are important to ecosystems
Yum 😋 I don’t mind more of these!
In Japanese drinking places called Izakaya like Hub, oysters are pretty much popular to eat them fresh, but we kind of consider that we might get sick or poisoned when eating them. so if there is no such worries, we eat a lot of shellfish such as oyster, mussles, bivalves. I wonder how much we can contribute the leftovers of those shellfishes into cleaning the oceans.
Public acceptance of water management in ports and cities north spong and south smart ports , floating cities and energies osmotic , absorbing in north and trasforming in south sustaining stadiums , hotels in mountain , etc , etc .
Aquaculture development in sponge ports , to me , can trasform the water in solar energy and sustain stadiums , aereospace hub , airports , universities , schools , joke park , research vessel doubling their potential for five or eight hotels .
There were seahorses in NY?
Yeah, that surprised me, as well. Sea horses?!
the first time i taste oyster it blew my mind, it tastes sooo good I love it.
When I was growing up my father was a seafood salesman and my family had a vacation beach house that had oysters and clams. I have always liked clams but have never liked oysters, raw (yuck!) grilled, BBQed, breaded/fried, still NO! Gross. This last year though, I tried fresh smoked oysters. WOW! They are so good I compare how much I like Fresh smoked oysters to how much I love CRAB. If I ever have Pacific Coast ocean front property, I'm setting up Oyster netting/farming.
Seems like these could be used in waste water treatment plants as well. Such plants may need to be bigger, but they would need less chemical treatment. And one could even be left with more useful products. Their excrement sounds like a fantastic source to mine for nitrogen fertiliser. And then the various uses of the shells. If oysters farmed in such a way are not palatable to people, then it would definitely be useful for animal feed. For example. It could be used in aquaponics or fish farms. In such a way fresh water would not be needed for waste treatment either, but rather seawater. It should at least be an option relatively close to coastlines. Which are where the majority of people on Earth live.
A lot of people don't seem to understand bivalves need clean water too. They aren't just filter feeders, they also need well oxygenated waters that are low in toxins. Pollution is literally killing all of the native north american freshwater bivalves and no one seems to even notice them dying. Pretty much no bivalves could survive in a wastewater treatment plant, unless you made an entire bay of them and just slowly trickled in a small amount of sewage that would not even come close to meeting the efficiency requirements.
@@derpychicken2131 Fair point. Though you are specifically referring to freshwater bivalves. I imagine oceanic species also have an upper limit of tolerance. And of course waste water doesn't only contain human waste.
@@joeblack4436 yeah, it also contains toxic runoff from that wash from lawns and roads carrying all sorts of nasty oil and chemicals if the plant is a sewage and storm drain management site. And to the saltwater question, I’d doubt you’d want to spend fortunes on expensive sea salt with the right mix of minerals and vitamins to ensure bivalve health, and then flush out the saltwater into many areas that usually drain freshwater. You could desalinate the water of course, but even plants near oceans will dump out freshwater. There’s also a reason why you don’t see desalination plants everywhere, it’s insanely expensive.
@@joeblack4436 why would they have a higher tolerance? the main difference is they are adapted to sea water. Most waste water cannot be treated by filtration species because of the heavy metals microplastics and other toxins which do endanger many oyster species. They are having so much success in NYC with oysters is people people buy them, therefore its making the restaurants money. There is no demand for non-edible Oysters, especially when we already perfected fresh water filtration on a large scale.
@@Brurgh Not saying higher tolerance. Merely that they also have an upper tolerance. What is pertinent however is that ocean water is a much more plentiful resource than fresh water. Making larger schemes with lower concentrations possible. That said. From my discussion with derpy it seems you would need an unrealistically large installation even so.
I caught myself eyeing my bottle of chablis in the middle of the video... I think I know what I want this weekend lol
This wonderful
I love me some oysters! Fried oysters, oyster stew, Oysters Rockefeller, kaki fry, oysters on the half shell, oyster burgers... Captain Dan!
Need this for Salton Sea!
5 Stars!
I absolutely do not put my oysters in vodka. I put lemon juice and tobasco on mine.
6:36 where did that number come from?
Hi Max, this is according to an analysis by the World Wildlife Fund and carried out by the University of Newcastle in Australia. You can read the report here: awsassets.panda.org/downloads/plastic_ingestion_press_singles.pdf
@@DWPlanetA thanks for the reply i'll have to read up on this, i knew that we already at a lot of microplastics but i never thought that it could be in such large quantities now.
Use the shells to produce lime for nixtamalizing corn.
Visit the Texas coast from Corpus Christi to Galveston and so on. Go to a bar one night and ask random people about oyster shots and you’ll hear all kinds of things. It’s a southern country thing I guess
Europe could mandate oyster restaurants to store them for collection and waterway restoration
Narrator: these guys are super heros Also narrator: goes ahead and slurps one
Need suggestion whether River and Lake water can be made better with Aquatic Plants and Molluscs?
Good question! Thriving native biodiversity can help improve river and lake water resiliency. ✨ Be sure to check with local biologists to know what region-specific plants and animals are most appropriate.
"We need more of these!" (Dead oyster)
Why did people in the past hunt everything down into extinction?? They seemed proud too, they did help in terms of feeding people at that timeframe but left nothing else for the future.. The world may be big but, nothing is infinite.
Most humans don't really care about anything that doesn't directly affect them
"Why did people in the past hunt everything down into extinction??" They didn't! With overpopulation Modern Man did that.
First the giant trees Then the giant oysters
because they didn't know that the world is finite. We are very much fooled by the abundance of thing, and we easily believe that if we can see a lot of it it must be limitless.
because they didn't have contraception, and done it out of need.
I love sea food, but they have to take care of the jobs they have. I hope the people who enjoy them as food can enjoy the help they can bring as well and allow it.
I love shell fish!
that is soooo cool! i was sold on the idea when i heard 'carbon sequestratiom', anyone know of a telegram group on climate change?
Maby ostyers in Calvados?
I could barely hear the first lady speaking DW... I had to put subtitles on again?
Don't plan on eating 5hem any more than I already don't.
I didn't know they meaning of it but I've always heard my boss say "ASAP". Like, "we need this done ASAP". So he meant oysters, mussels and clams, huh. Now I know what he means when he says ASAP.
Ha. Ha.
Can you talk about how ocean acidification will affect oysters?
Thank you for your feedback. Acidification of water means that there are lower pH levels in the water (which means less carbonate) - this is an essential element that oysters rely on to build their shells. As acidity increases, shells become thinner and slows down their growth. It also increases their death rates. We try our best to put all the information in a 10 min KZhead clip and also offer read more links in the description for extra information - so don't forget to read those papers!
survived millions of years... then came the humans
Spot on
Nothing grows without food, and of course they have organs, you said gills in the very next sentance.
The possibility of ingesting micro plastics and the over exploitation of seafood resources and its' impact on other marine species are the two main reasons I gave up eating seafood years ago. Humans don't need to eat seafood to survive, but all sea birds and most other marine animals don't have that option.
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The one-credit-card-worth-of-microplastics study seems to have been debunked. Plus, that's a weird argument. "We inadvertently ingest a lot of microplastics, so let's ingest some more"?
In her defense, I think she's just trying to say that even if you don't eat seafood, you are taking in microplastics in other ways, and that is something you should be concerned; even if you don't eat seafood, you could still champion for more shellfish in our waters. But yes, it is a weird statement. lol
Someone should start a company that is dedicated to use filter feeders to filter water
And they are SSSSOOOOOOO TASTY, YUMMMMM
that's why you need ocean fertilization to grow algae to feed these clams
What are the negatives?
If we only ate the fish advised in Leviticus, the oceans would be cleaner and there would be more "clean" fish to eat.
Never tasted one. Not available here for some reason.
What could consumers specifically do to support those sustainable practices?
All I see is deliciousness. Clam soup, clam chowder, baked mussels, raw oysters with a bit of yuzu, pan-seared scallops with butter, clam and mussels vongole pasta, bacon wrapped scallops, grilled oysters with ponzu and butter, etc. etc.
I live in California. Since when have we been putting oysters in vodka? Or is that some kind of New York thing?
amazing. but then, we need renewable energy to power projects similar to this.
Never heard of anyone putting oysters in vodka.
Why don't we eat invasive animals or look for more kinds of food rather then trying to increase the same ones over and over.
We try in some cases. For example there's an effort to make lionfish a delicacy
There’s definitely cases where we attempt to eat invasive species. It’s a multipronged approach in the end. The mussels and oysters strike me more as us going “ya know, evolution spent millions of years making a creature which is really good at this function. Then we ate it to an extent where the population was too low to perform. So how about we just go and reverse that?” In other words: no need to reinvent the wheel.
@@limbodog i hear in Florida they are trying and to a degree has secess.
Or Carp in the midwest!
Not all Invasive animals are edible or taste good.
Live in the US an never heard of oyster in vodka...
Our motto is...Eat Mussels, Save the Planet!
Isn't that exactly the opposite of what this video suggests? I mean, if sustainably farmed I guess it should be fine. As long as they replenish as fast as you farm them, but I don't think that's the case most places currently right?
@@0xszander0 The way we farm them we replenish the stocks at least as quickly as we harvest them. And the process of producing them absorbs carbon and also creates habitats for other species along with many other benefits.
We need to eat Marine Life in limit. We can't just keep eating them at the rate that we are. We should eat in moderation. Just because something can be eaten does not mean that have to eat it.
I've never heard of oysters in vodka
yes yes put these clams everywheeereee
Excellent... nature can cure itself and we can help to speed it up.
Perhaps you are unaware zebra mussels are considered an invasive species and they are ruining the Great lakes.