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# How This Oyster Farmer is Reinventing Aquaculture
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/women-earth/episode/how-this-oyster-farmer-is-reinventing-aquaculture-6enzvn/
- Published: 2025-09-03T17:45:51.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-04T15:30:09.000Z
- Description: See how a marine scientist is approaching the paradox of aquaculture gear to improve oyster farms.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Women of the Earth, Season 2, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_ed77684b-4b4b-4154-a83a-7b8d708ce2da, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_a265e5b6-6683-4387-b365-4e8cbe8d1adb, #v1.16

Oysters are powerful ecosystem engineers—they filter water, reduce ocean acidification, and build reefs that act as natural breakwaters, protecting our coasts. But the plastic gear used to farm them is doing irreversible harm to the very ecosystems oysters help restore.