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COMMENTS: Mussels Make Maine Greener
NBC's Sea Change series on the maritime environment, part of its corporate Universal Green Week, kicked off with Anne Thompson in the "rugged beauty known as Bar Harbor." Overfishing off the coast of Maine has depleted the wild stocks of salmon and all but wiped out cod. She introduced us to aquaculture, which is seeking to restore the salmon fishery and reintroduce halibut too. The problem is that aquaculture uses feed and antibiotics, allowing disease to spread. Thompson told us that new green fish farms use mussels and seaweed to absorb pollution and clean waste water.
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