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By Kirsten Weir Last summer, Caroline Wilson, then 7, and her 6-year-old sister Hannah helped to raise some unlikely pets: thousands of baby oysters. Happily for the science-savvy sisters, their grandparents, Lynn and John Badger, had signed on as “oyster conservationists.” The project - a collaboration among the University of New Hampshire (UNH), The Nature Conservancy, and the New Hampshire Estuaries Project - is just one component of an effort to restore eastern oysters to New Hampshire's Great Bay Estuary. “It's a wonderful way to get the community involved in doing something for the bay,” Lynn Badger said. Besides being a food source for humans and animals, oysters are natural water purifiers. They filter out pollutants from the water of Great Bay, which faces increasing pollutant loads. In 1995, a disease triggered a major oyster die-off in New Hampshire waters, said Ray Grizzle, research professor of zoology at UNH. “We've lost 90 percent of our [oyster] stock in the last 10 years,” he said. He intends to try to bring it back. |
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