How oysters can stop a flood

[@Vox]

Another interesting fact is that oysters have been shown to help reduce ocean acidification in the Chesapeake Bay. When the ocean acidity rises their shells start to dissolve and release calcium carbonate, which helps to balance the pH levels. Calcium carbonate is also the common ingredient in the antacid medicines many take for heartburn or indigestion. So you can think of oysters as antacid for the ocean! -Kim

[@bait-cz5uj]

I'd like to have seen the information on how long it takes to grow.

[@RefRed_King]

2nd reply

[@digiryde]

This means that they sequester carbon in the first place. :) Only releasing it when needed and even then that carbon is caught up in a chemical reaction that should consume the released carbon.

[@moonbender95]

Sounds bad if you consider that humans kept dumping CO2 in the air

[@StephenMortimer]

Vox you have a very GULLIBLE audience

[@justahilltopguy5418]

Let's not forget all the carbon that gets sequestered in those shells! Marvelous filter feeders.

[@OysterNinjaPc]

Carbon is a biggie

[@pianoetudes4755]

The shell is mostly calcium

[@hellelujahh]

@@pianoetudes4755 Calcium... carbonate, right? I actually don't know.

[@عمرالحصيني-ز8ع]

@@hellelujahh yes, you are right. Actually calcium carbonate constitutes the shells or bodies of many shallow marine organisms including gastropods, brachiopods, algae... etc

[@ethans6.0]

can you imagine if this is what our solution was to hurricane katrina

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The people who don't eat oysters whatsoever: I'm way ahead of you

[@leelee0505]

ive always found oysters kinda nasty to eat ngl 💀

[@OysterNinjaPc]

@@leelee0505 which flavor profiles have you tried tho?

[@walter_islov4807]

sameee

[@lukav3509]

here before this comment becomes popular

[@YouthAmphia]

😹😐

[@bag3lmonst3r72]

Just over a century ago, oysters and lobsters were considered poor people's food. Funny how tastes change over the decades.

[@dominikjakaj1999]

well now its "rich people food" just because of its scarcity

[@cancerino666]

Now it's rare, so becomes expensive, so becomes rich people food.

[@kionnakelly2918]

This is a commonly occurring cycle

[@OysterNinjaPc]

Oysters are trending

[@Wasserkaktus]

"Rich people food" in history would be extremely inappropriate today: I dare any four star restaurant to serve cockentrice on their menu and for it's patrons to demand it.

[@laurenconrad1799]

Fun fact: Pearl Street in downtown New York is named for the pearls inside oysters. Centuries ago, there used to be pearls all over that street.

[@Tokahfang]

I was born in a place named after oysters and never thought about the fact I never saw any around there!

[@girlofanimation]

And Long Island has an area/hamlet called Oyster Bay

[@Jessicahasopinions]

I grew up on the chesapeake in Baltimore and I have seen a difference in the last 10+ years, the conservation efforts are working. I love seeing the wild life on the water, especially all the birds.

[@dicksdrugsanddebutantes9305]

Its amazing to hear that its working

[@purpleheadedmonster8735]

I am from coastal area of Bangladesh🇧🇩. I know the devastating effect of sea level rising. 10 years ago where I used to play cricket is now under blue bay for 12 months of the year. Climate change is very real here.

[@munibowais]

@@dancingbanana168 climate change is not real?

[@pootonz5810]

@@dancingbanana168 huh?

[@penname8441]

+

[@nuggets0717]

Joy bangla ♥️🙏

[@red_roy]

@@LamiaTabassum789 im from BD and we say joy bangla very frequently on cricket matches and stuff. We don’t say joy Bangladesh So i have no idea what you mean

[@yumiko0017]

This is amazing. Then on the other hand you still have people who don’t believe in climate change or keeping our oceans clean 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@paulredinger420]

That's because it's the natural rhythm of the earth. I have seen photos of lakes from 150 years ago that the water levels were 8-10 feet lower for years. Climate control doesn't answer why we've had so many ice ages. It's a scare tactic, and helps us stay divided.

[@cassiusdalcazarosta8010]

@@paulredinger420 during those ice ages, there is no human to be made extinct here.

[@mariachi3217]

@@paulredinger420 the problem is the absurd amounts of co2 that is pumped into the air just by human activity alone

[@andyzzone]

Nature: Knows best to protect using reefs. Human: Nah, Imma eat y'all...nom nom nom.

[@YouthAmphia]

bro what?😐

[@nvae7252]

Yes sadly true

[@Subhrajyoti]

@@YouthAmphia nom nom nom

[@Hartono25277]

Nature: Then don't mind me eating your seafront properties

[@eekee6034]

Yup. Humans doing whatever they (or their leaders) think is best without appropriate knowledge. The worst part is when they ridicule or hate truth, or even manufacture impressive and appealing arguments to get other people to disbelieve the truth. It takes careful consideration and honesty to find the truth on some very important issues.

[@wendel5868]

'The World is my oyster'. - Nah 'The World needs more oyster'. - Yes

[@gabrielle-mariekirk1063]

My humor is out of wack mc this comment has me deceased 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@eekee6034]

@@gabrielle-mariekirk1063 I hope you feel better soon~

[@Morgulvale_]

I'm doing my part by never have eaten an oyster in my life!

[@sortof3337]

Yup me too.

[@OysterNinjaPc]

Lol why what happened?? And the more we eat the more that can go back into the water.

[@Wasserkaktus]

This might be part of the problem: No one has eaten an American Chestnut for decades, and the fact that they just disappeared doesn't seem to concern most people... If there was demand for American Chestnuts, the species would have probably endured their plague much better.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@justayoutuber1906 No it's not bizzare: The American Chestnut died because there was minimal demand for their Chestnuts. If there was strong enough of a demand, farmers would have had a strong incentive to come up with ways to combat the blight.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@justayoutuber1906 I don't think locusts would become more valuable if they became rare (in the parts of the World where they still live). For that to work, people need to want them around in the first place.

[@chrisfelonall1177]

Whenever I see oysters, that one Mr. Bean episode always comes to my mind

[@JordanEstes]

Amazing reference!!

[@liamwinters298]

Now that's a throwback. That Mr Bean episode has to be one of my favourite comedy episodes of all time

[@cybercomets7260]

what a positive one

[@TheWizardGamez]

Just had a ratatouille critic moment

[@XenoRaptor-98765]

Someone can also make oysters reefs a part of eco-tourism.

[@ComicalRealm]

Humans: We must save environment. Oysters: Helping save environmentby filtering water Also Humans: Oyster tasty :)

[@shakrunviauc3128]

nom nom yummie

[@Bees_Animations]

no- oyster = not tasty

[@sebihuerta5308]

@@Bees_Animations nah bro oysters are so good

[@Bees_Animations]

@@sebihuerta5308 Nono They don’t taste good.

[@sebihuerta5308]

@@Bees_Animations why

[@ProGamer-qq3nl]

Louisiana: “I’ll take your entire stock!”

[@collyflower6623]

Some seafood restaurants are recycling their leftover oyster shells so they can be reused as reef material!

[@_m.h]

:)

[@emmaeriksson7155]

Restoring ecosystems and specially waterbased ecosystems is one of my favorite subject and oysters really is something else. Only the way they cleans the ocean from algae is a episode of its own

[@aimanraza]

I spent last summer completing an oyster resoration internship. It's truly incredible how beneficial these reefs are

[@amandamartinez9497]

2 days later and this seems more important than ever after seeing what Ida did to NY, NJ and PA.

[@jgaffney567]

There was a huge push to repopulate native shellfish in New Jersey and NY in the early 2000s. Chris Christie stopped it dead in Jersey .

[@amandamartinez9497]

@@jgaffney567 Big surprise.

[@jgaffney567]

@@amandamartinez9497 Rutgers had the program all set and ready to go. Seems like the project upset some commercial interests. Killed immediately. NY went ahead with theirs

[@amandamartinez9497]

@@jgaffney567 Commercial interests always seem to be more important than actual necessities.

[@armandodesousa6375]

They also lock up the excess carbon in the ocean. Also, they are delicious!

[@Adam-kp8wr]

@Han Boetes food

[@armandodesousa6375]

@Han Boetes most important to me is one I left out- the beauty of oyster reefs and the birding options they create. I am so sorry that they are becoming so rare. And moderrn oyster production does not involve reefs.

[@SWinxyTheCat]

In middle school, we helped make one of those concrete blocks that went into the Chesapeake. Cool to learn more about it so many years later!

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

The wall we aren’t talking about.

[@SimplyJoshinYa]

This was very interesting. Reminds me of the veterans memorial reef my uncle is a part of. They take active duty and past veterans remains and bring the family off shore on boats. The family then lowers the remains in a cement orb much like ones seen in this video down and eventually the goal is to create an entire reef off the coast of NC artificially.

[@BienvenidoAlHoloceno]

Very interesting video. Never imagined oysters were such an important part of the ecosystem.

[@alelopez6514]

Right! Just goes to show everything plays a huge part in anything

[@theholyasdf3593]

A machine that automates its own maintenance, construction, water filtration, building itself as a fortress and lynchpining ecological stability that's so efficient that it required zero human labor. And we ate them all hahahaha - I guess there are some things that technology just can't substitute

[@jeffbenton6183]

I feel like eating them sustainably would have made those reefs stronger, because people would want them around.

[@EvErLoyaLEagLE]

Oysters are too expensive to eat anyway. Save your money, save our planet, save our human species

[@jimmywu1011]

Oyster is super cheap in Taiwan, which is where I'm from. We grow plenty of them in oyster farms.

[@elchron]

yeah oysters are pretty cheap in my country too maybe its because we have a lot of oysters farm

[@PakBallandSami]

beavers: ah yes a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary

[@maifeeulasad]

I'm from Bangladesh. But I had no idea, we are trying to prevent storms with oysters. Thanks for this informative video.

[@azj_]

Past: We must getting rid of it this oyster Now: We need this oyster thing back

[@obinator9065]

Morale of the story: leave nature alone as much as possible.

[@grantmccoy6739]

This is really exciting. I've been a fan of filter feeders for a while now and am really happy to see people attempting to bring them back.

[@Frozenmemory1]

i hope they will be able to execute this plan

[@Mojabi_ghost]

Nature gives us everything we need to survive🌱

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

Oysters: I can filter 50 gallons of water per day! I’m the best! Mussels: I can filter 70 gallons per day so….

[@L0615T1C]

why am I just hearing of this! This really need more publicity

[@xi3382]

Things: *exist* Human: *YUM*

[@YouthAmphia]

😐

[@cloudpoint0]

Soon everywhere on this planet will be like China. In China almost no natural life exists because it quickly gets eaten by people.

[@g4do]

Yep ... Japan eats up all of the tuna and America eats up EVERYTHING ELSE

[@benjaminmartin956]

Hmmm look at all that yummy air said China

[@p3el_]

@@benjaminmartin956 might aswell add some co2. Said china.

[@benjaminmartin956]

@@p3el_ heck we're all guilty except for maybe north sentinel island 🤣

[@thesauce1682]

And Yummy cow's poo in india.

[@jespergran]

More oysters? In Norway it’s the exact opposite where oysters are taking over the fjords and destroying the habitat for other species. In some areas there are up to 300 oysters per quadratmeter, my family have a cabin near a small fjord and over the past 5 years we have picked up over 2 tons of oysters. When I was younger we used to fish crabs with mussels as bait, but most of the mussels are gone now because of the oysters.

[@Wasserkaktus]

Eat them without replenishing them then.

[@Lionsgala]

Or sell them to the USA I mean you just saw this video show it to some USA congressman or congresswoman and get them to buy we need more of them in our oceans and you have too many of them sell them to us and get rich in the process. where the United States of America we will buy anything if you Market it well enough.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@Lionsgala The U.S. doesn't have a demand for oysters like it used to, so this wouldn't work.

[@Lionsgala]

@@Wasserkaktus we're probably not going to eat them that doesn't mean we can't put them in our oceans it can be an environmental project funded by the government

[@joshuagcwong734]

More vids like this. Love learning about ecology 🤌

[@MINDSETBULLETPROOF]

To think these little guys can be SO resilient against such crises, it's....INCREDIBLE...

[@venkateshpotter1685]

How wonderful it is. Literally every living creature on earth 🌎 is eco friendly except humans.

[@derAtze]

Cows

[@Math-wg9ok]

@@derAtze carbon farts

[@hellocruelworld753]

Literally every living creature, except livestock, invasive species and cyanobacteria, that made atmosphere uninhabitable for most organisms at the time.

[@itz_aljk2338]

This is definitely important both for human and marine ecosystem. And the further growth of oyster reefs can make more oysters and can have a level of farming oysters without reducing its total population by keeping it growing more after.

[@jprov]

I would love to get involved in this project, we live in a truly sorry state and nobody seems interested in halting the damage we’re doing to our one and only home.

[@ONE-cw3eh]

“When you picture new york city you think of-“ *Airplane goes through building*

[@gjk-arts5855]

building(s)

[@tescotrain]

And in London, we need more tourists to use Oyster cards.

[@salaltschul3604]

I love that you guys have those. I'm an Aussie in NSW and ours are called Opal cards. Much less fun.

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@salaltschul3604 In my part of California, they're Compass cards

[@nofear886]

And in Hong Kong, they are called Octopus cards 😂 you could even use it in a restaurant or convenience store!

[@flyawaken8691]

My teacher: make a model on how u can prevent seashore errosion. Me: make a sea wall Teacher: it's so conventional u get a C This video comes out a year later Me: thx

[@burnedoutnotactuallygifted6270]

You could have done research and found this too

[@Shedoeswhatshewants]

Humans just need to stop eating from the ocean period

[@Wasserkaktus]

No, humans just need to consume ocean resources more sustainably: Ocean resources are actually much easier to replenish than land.

[@elisaaguilar6423]

So what are people who live on islands supposed to eat? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@bobbo6557]

Since a live in Maryland I know that oysters are an important force to help clean the bay, there are multiple facilities in Maryland that have been trying to restore as many oysters back into the bay

[@StanLeeGhost]

I haven't eaten one in forever I used to eat them as a child with some lime and salt.

[@IndelibleHD]

The Walrus and the Carpenter approve this video.

[@carlogalsim2166]

Mind-blowing, thank you for educating as always. Keep up the good work Vox 👍

[@murtazashabbir4587]

His scoff at the end when he said "it feels hopeful" is because he knows this is just a theory. In practicality we don't do any of these things we learn everyday about "sustainability"

[@panchora99]

I´d imagine that there is a science behind how and where they decide to build these oyster reefs. It is not as simple as just placing the oysters in concret blocks into the sea and hope for the best.

[@naojp1]

I didn't know the reason why NYC has many oyster restaurants, and I was not able to imagine ships had need to be navigated to avoid oysters.

[@nessyharr8831]

Wow...I learnt something new today.

[@AnonymousMC]

Hey everyone! :D I hope you stay safe and have a nice day, God bless you!

[@elementarydream6205]

I didn’t like to say that’s but it seems that everything (everyone) we eat cause some problem for planet

[@QuangNguyen-iq4tt]

this needs going viral

[@zotoda]

we need more of theses everywhere

[@Bmarshall3892]

I live in the Delmarva peninsula around the shore. You can definitely tell the water clarity where there is clams and oysters and sea grass this is not a joke this is my home

[@michaelnelson2976]

This is a very good thing to know, thank you

[@clarencedun3146]

Me who hasn't eaten a single oyster: Mama I'm saving the planet

[@alfredrimorin2083]

Never thought this was more helpful with less impact to marine life than my country’s artificial white sand bay

[@myliege8197]

I remember seeing the living shoreline segment on the PBS newshour. There's so much business potential here just from recycling oyster shells from seafood restaurants.

[@khsh99]

Thank you, I didn't know any thing about oysters reef .

[@evolutionmax9791]

*This is just shows that God makes no mistakes....*

[@vartikamandan4215]

Hence proved EARTH is better engineer than us humans.......

[@dashknow5082]

Just tell the U.S gov. that oysters will increase off shore oil production, then we will have an ocean of them.

[@Robertking1996]

Every animal really serves an ecological purpose

[@lover7403]

God almighty places things in the cycle of nature for purpose, nothing exists without reason, absolutely nothing without purpose.

[@ArianrhodTalon]

Take care of nature and it'll take care of us

[@fhsfahim9979]

I'm pleased by listening by country name Bangladesh 🇧🇩 as a good thing😇

[@souravkumarsingh8265]

It's just so fascinating nature has solution to each problems.... Humans even being an earthling... Is destroying the balance.... It's just seem weirdly true

[@containedhurricane]

I didn't know about this. Excellent documentary

[@MammothBehemoth]

Mangroves provide a better tidal defense. It's not only easier to grow than oyster reefs, but it can serve as a nursery for oysters to grow together with a whole large coastal ecosystem

[@MammothBehemoth]

@@justayoutuber1906 oh yeah. Slipped my mind 👍

[@har5814]

The world is my oyster anyway.

[@al_caponeh6185]

Let's make a Blue Oyster cult.

[@FredHsu]

Please continue to make videos like this. Great video!

[@Highnoonshred]

Great animation and info! People need to hear this out!!!

[@roncocoyeah]

oysters are so important to the environment

[@nitiratp]

Yet another reason to love oysters.

[@rajumadduri6254]

When you realize the most purpose-less creature on the planet is "Human"

[@Francois2120]

Hopefully this would be taken into consideration, especially in the Philippines!

[@abdirahmanabdikani9876]

Very informative thanks🙏

[@Jack-rj6iu]

Mutually beneficial way to combat climate change and ecological damage, very interesting 👍

[@shss1421]

The fact that the plane in the intro was flying nearby the new one world trade center gives me chills since its 5 more days till september 11th

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

Great. We had to be threatened with drowning to do anything.... Bless the people who do the work before the news cares about it

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

Tastiness is like the lowest fitness trait something can have in the anthropocene

[@Wasserkaktus]

This is actually wrong when you look at a case by case basis: If this was true, at least three invasive species which have ravaged the New World, hogs, lampreys and kudzu, would not be an issue.

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

@@Wasserkaktus Actually, fitness isn’t only determined by a single trait. Every living being will have a mix of low fitness traits with high fitness ones (e.g. fast reproduction rates; wide food spectrum). Despite low fitness traits you will still survive as a species if you have “net positive” fitness (or just fit your specific ecological niche very well). Especially invasive species have a “lack of natural predators” as a very high fitness trait that far over-shadows quite a lot of negative traits.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@waterunderthebridge7950 How does your response provide any rebuttal to what I said? Your claim was that tastiness is the lowest fitness trait in the Anthropocene... And I say that is wrong with those three species as an example, all three of which are extremely delicious. What is more likely is that oysters declined because human understanding of oceanic ecosystems and their resources have remained very poorly understood compared to terrestrial ones: Oysters were just badly overfished and no emphasis was made on replenishment for the reasons stated above, plus the fact that Commerce would likely want to see the oyster reefs gone because it meant a big navigational hazard they had was now gone.

[@braxtonjackson_]

i love informative videos like this

[@colinscobie]

awesome - I have shared this on ESRAG Moreton Bay FB page

[@study1495]

Thank you for giving us such an important news....

[@Evaluatetheextenttowhich3797]

Not are they just good for seafood, they are a lifesaver to all reefs.

[@oO5Dynasty]

I Love to Learn something New! Thank You!

[@taehokang2551]

thanks for another super informative video vox!

[@yashuya2022]

Last time I checked, you needed master chief to stop them.

[@ironic.]

Oysters used to be poor people’s food around 100 years ago. Funny how times change

[@joeybaseball7352]

100 years from now McDonald's will be rich people food.

[@mothiurNCL]

The wonders of nature - oyster reefs.

[@marlontellez7732]

Well, my friends, “We’re gonna need a bigger reef”.

[@TheFatblob25]

Oysters are absolutely beautiful.

[@bramschiebroek1413]

Funny how nature always provides the answer for problems we face.. but the cause for the problems are typically the removal of this solution in the first place

[@y0urt]

i just saw a guy slurp 17 oysters on tiktok this couldnt be more on point

[@Belioyt]

Why are you on TikTok? I think the average TikTok user has to check their brain at the door.

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

At one time, bivalves ruled and constructed the reefs. These were called Rudist Reefs and they were giant mollusks and bivalves that were common during the Mesozoic Era.

[@wizzzer1337]

Oysters: "Sierra 117 reporting for duty! I NEED A WEAPON!"