Dear Tim,
Like you, we want to protect the British shellfish industry by removing the untreated sewage polluting British waters.
Unfortunately, solutions suggested to date “rob Peter to pay Paul”.
While the headlines highlight the 192,000 hours of untreated sewage dumping, and the medical risks of merely entering the water in the Oxbridge boat race; the only solution posed is raising water bills.
It is ludicrous to raise water bills while food insecurity has increased by nearly 50%, and twice the number of people can’t pay their heating bills than previously. Raising bills is a lazy intervention, created by those without their finger on the pulse of the community.
We need an intervention that delivers definite benefits, is proven by science, and doesn’t cripple the disposable income of our people.
That solution is native oysters.
We at The Oyster Restoration Company, propose deploying 11M native oysters to do what they do best:
Clean water by filtering 1.3B litres of water a day
Remove pollutants by extracting 3.19T of nitrogen from the water
Revitalise the fishery by increasing fish biomass by 330T per sq/km per year after 2 years of oyster reef deployment
Offshore wind companies around Europe are already including native oysters as part of their biodiversity enhancement measures at current wind farm sites.
Our hatchery overcomes typical restoration hurdles of scale and disease status by producing 150M disease-free native oysters per year.
We can manage the end-to-end process of oyster reef deployment, but we need a public, mission-aligned, flagbearer to shine a light on this initiative in the national media to attract sponsorship.
Unlike Prefab Sprout, we do not want to let those “lovely creatures down”. We have a solution that simultaneously revitalises the fishery and removes water pollutants.
Please get in touch to discuss this opportunity further so we can set ourselves apart from lazy solutions and make a meaningful impact with native oysters.
James Dinsdale, Chairman, The Oyster Restoration Company
Dr Nik Sachlikidis, CEO, The Oyster Restoration Company
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