For decades, one company has had nearly unfettered access to the underwater mountain of oyster shells that are mined and turned into a chicken feed additive.
For decades, one company has had nearly unfettered access to the underwater mountain of oyster shells that are mined and turned into a chicken feed additive.
For decades, one company has had nearly unfettered access to the underwater mountain of oyster shells that are mined and turned into a chicken feed additive.
For years now, if a commuter were to glance to the north side of the San Mateo Bridge, they might see a lonely barge, painted with the words “Lind Marine,”
Interlopers are coming into California by land, by sea … and by FedEx. That’s what happened with the European green crab, a voracious cannibal that stowed away in packages of worms sent by overnight delivery to commercial fishermen in California. Unknown to anyone, the tiny crustaceans were concealed in seaweed that wrapped the cargo and were freed into the Pacific when fishermen tossed it overboard. Then the green crabs, which a century ago decimated the East Coast’s shellfish industry, began to dine out in the Pacific, munching nearly everything in sight. Authorities made plans to rid the ocean of the pests.