PORTSMOUTH — Daniel Torre wants to apply the lessons he’s learned from assisting an oyster farmer in Point Judith to an operation of his own north of Sandy Point in the Sakonnet River.
He has a pending lease application with the Coastal Resources Management Council for 3 acres. If approved, his initial crop would likely total between 50 and 100 floating bags containing 50,000 and 100,000 1-inch oysters within a perimeter marked by four buoys. The CRMC received the application Sept. 12 and a 30-day public comment period on it ended Nov. 1.
Adult oysters filter about 50 gallons of water a day, removing phytoplankton from the water and absorbing the nutrients they contain, Torre recently told The Daily News. “They’re filtering the water and making it cleaner,” he said. “So that’ll increase water quality. There are a lot of known benefits to water quality from oyster aquaculture.”
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