Nutrients are needed for every living organism. Whether to grow and developed or supply food for these processes, but what happens when nutrients accumulate to dangerous levels? The idea of using something as small as shellfish may just be the solution. Nitrogen management programs are wanting to use these shell fish as a way to remediate nitrogen along the coast lines. The idyllic situation is to have the overabundance of nitrogen integrate into the biomass of plankton and see weed, to then wait for the shellfish to consume them.Then these shellfish would be harvested, which would remove the nitrogen from the water allowing the oxygen to return. Simple enough right? The nitrogen management programs love this idea because it wouldn't disrupt much.Everyone would win such as the environment, economic and social standing. Unfortunately the costs seem to be greater. There are many factors that would have to literally be perfect to pull it off. Also shellfish alone wont be able to completely fix this problem with the main problem being the food ability. Then there is also been legal battles. And Lastly actual implementations have not been put into the works. This would be a very cost effective way to control the nitrogen which certain stipulations.
Rose, J., Bricker, S., Tedesco, M., & Wikfors, G. (2014, February 7). A Role for Shellfish Aquaculture in Coastal Nitrogen Management. Retrieved September 20, 2014, from http://pubs.acs.org.library.tamiu.edu:2048/doi/abs/10.1021/es4041336
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