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I consider myself to be a non-academic freethinker with some ideas about aquaculture and ocean preservation which deserve to be scientifically validated and technically verified. The case is made for greater use of the High Seas with large scale mussel farms able to take over from forage fish for aquaculture, thus positively impacting the preservation of marine biotopes, global food security and climate change mitigation. You should also view my website https://commonseagood.com/
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Citation: Moore D, Heilweck M, Fears WB, et al. Potential of ocean calcifiers to sequester atmospheric carbon in quantity and even reverse climate change. J Fish Res. 2023;7(1):132 Today's marine calcifiers (coccolithophore algae, Foraminifera [protists], Mollusca, Crustacea, Anthozoa [corals], Echinodermata and some annelids) convert atmospheric c...
We are all familiar with the episodes in the deep time history of Earth that enabled life to emerge in such abundance. Episodes like the formation of a Moon large enough and near enough to cause tides in the Earth’s waters and rocks, a core of sufficient iron with sufficient angular momentum to generate a protective magnetosphere around Earth, and...
Today’s marine calcifiers (coccolithophore algae, Foraminifera [protists], Mollusca, Crustacea, Anthozoa [corals], Echinodermata) remove carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere, converting it into solid calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) which is stable for geological periods of time. These organisms could serve as a biotechnological carbon capture and...
Today’s marine calcifiers (coccolithophore algae, Foraminifera [protists], Mollusca, Crustacea, Anthozoa [corals], Echinodermata) remove carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere, converting it into solid calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) which is stable for geological periods of time. These organisms could serve as a biotechnological carbon capture and...
We give a plain language guide to the Earth’s carbon cycle by briefly summarising the observations and origins of increased levels of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 but including CH4 and N2O, in our present-day atmosphere. They are increased in the sense that they have not occurred naturally in the Earth’s atmosphere at any time during the past 420,0...
Published online NOW [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94846-7]
This book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing CO2 from the atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3 through the ability of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea, corals, and coccolithophore algae. The overwhelming advanta...
Today's marine calcifiers (coccolithophore algae, Foraminifera (protists), Mollusca, Crustacea, corals) remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, converting it into solid calcium carbonate (CaCO3) which is stable for geological periods of time. Consequently, these organisms could serve as a biotechnological carbon capture and storage mechani...
4. Heilweck, M. (2022). The High Seas Solution. In: Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS. (eds D. Moore, M. Heilweck & P. Petros), Chapter 4, pp. 97-130. A volume in the Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 9783030948450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94846-7_4.
4.1 In this Chapter… The case is made for grea...
3. Moore, D. & Heilweck, M. (2022). Aquaculture: Prehistoric to Traditional to Modern. In: Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS. (eds D. Moore, M. Heilweck & P. Petros), Chapter 3, pp. 65-95. A volume in the Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 9783030948450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94846-7_3.
3.1 In th...
8. Moore, D., Heilweck, M. & Petros, P. (2022). What Should Be Done. In: Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS. (eds D. Moore, M. Heilweck & P. Petros). Chapter 8, pp. 217-242. A volume in the Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 9783030948450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94846-7_8.
8.1 In this Chapter… We p...
2. Moore, D., Heilweck, M. & Petros, P. (2022). Cultivate Shellfish to Remediate the Atmosphere. In: Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGS. (eds D. Moore, M. Heilweck & P. Petros), Chapter 2. pp. 35-63. A volume in the Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 9783030948450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94846-7_2....
We have worked up the publications detailed elsewhere in this section into a manuscript for a book entitled ‘Aquaculture: Ocean Blue Carbon Meets UN-SDGs’ that is being published by the Springer Nature Group. We signed contracts and delivered the completed manuscript in July 2021. The book has been in review since. This initial manuscript was accep...
We are all familiar with the more notable episodes in the deep time history of Earth that enabled life to emerge in such abundance on this planet. Episodes like the collision with Theia that resulted in formation of a Moon large enough and close enough to cause tides in the Earth’s waters and rocks, donation of sufficient iron with sufficient angul...
Petros, P., Heilweck, M. & Moore, D. (2021). Saving the planet with appropriate biotechnology: 5. An action plan/Salvando el planeta con biotecnología apropiada: 5. Un plan de acción. Mexican Journal of Biotechnology, 6(2): 1-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29267/mxjb.2021.6.2.1.
We evaluate suggestions to harness the ability of calcifying organisms (m...
We evaluate recently-published reviews that suggest harnessing the ability of calcifying marine organisms (molluscs, crustacea, corals and coccolithophore algae) to remove permanently CO 2 from the atmosphere into solid (crystalline) CaCO 3. Calcifiers sequester atmospheric CO 2 as calcium and calcium-magnesium carbonates that are undigestible and...
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The case is made for greater use of the High Seas to replace forage fish with mussels in the diet of farmed fish and produce the increasing amounts of food that will be required by the growing human population, whilst at the same time pulling down carbon from the atmosphere with bivalve cultivation. The vision is to preserve the oceans as a healthy...
Shellfish cultivation is the only industry on the planet that (a) feeds us, (b) permanently removes CO2 from our atmosphere, and, with care, could (c) engineer our marine habitats to maintain the health and biodiversity of those ecosystems into the future. About 30-50% of shellfish biomass is represented by the animals’ shells, and shellfish shell...
We give a plain language guide to the Earth’s carbon cycle by briefly summarising the observations and origins of increased levels of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2 but including CH4 and N2O, in our atmosphere. The only tenable explanation for our atmosphere’s present state is that it is the consequence of mankind’s excessive use of fossil fuels sinc...
We give a plain language guide to the Earth's carbon cycle by briefly summarising the observations and origins of increased levels of greenhouse gases, mainly CO 2 but including CH 4 and N 2 O, in our present day atmosphere. They are increased in the sense that they have not occurred naturally in the Earth's atmosphere at present day levels at any...
Shellfish cultivation is the only industry on the planet that (a) feeds us, (b) permanently removes CO 2 from our atmosphere, and, with care, could (c) engineer our marine habitats to maintain the health and biodiversity of those ecosystems into the future. This review describes fully this basic message: that shellfish cultivation as a carbon seque...
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The case is made for greater use of the High Seas to replace forage fish with mussels in the diet of farmed fish and produce the increasing amounts of food that will be required by the growing human population, whilst at the same time pulling down carbon from the atmosphere with bivalve cultivation. The vision is to preserve the oceans as a healthy...
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We aim to properly harness the ability of calcifying organisms (molluscs, crustacea, corals and coccolithophore algae) to remove permanently CO2 from the atmosphere into solid (crystalline) CaCO3, and emphasise that this CaCO3 not only sequesters atmospheric carbon, but has the bio-circular economic potential for use as a sustainable biomaterial. We argue that if the level of finance and global effort that are readily foreseen for forest management and flue gas treatments were to be applied to expansion of shellfish cultivation around the world, significant amounts of carbon dioxide could be permanently removed from the atmosphere within the timescale that is currently envisaged for carbon capture by afforestation. With the additional advantages of improved natural capital value (including food security), and ecosystem services (many of the organisms involved are natural ecosystem engineers). Further, as a nature-based solution, there is a minimum of hard infrastructure and consequently faster implementation (we could start tomorrow) and lower investment risk (many of the organisms that will sequester carbon in their shells are saleable food-animals). Carbon sequestration through shellfish cultivation is much more permanent, being secured for geological periods of time, rather than for the few years or decades secured by planting trees or by industrial carbon capture and storage, both of which can only be considered as temporary solutions.
