Eelgrass Aqua-pelago: A Symbiosis of Conservation and Production
Winner of the Merit Award in the 2021 WLA Awards – Student – Concept Design category
This is a landscape framework of dynamic ecological transition through the lens of eelgrass beds.
Eelgrass bed is the most significant coastal ecology in Buzzards Bay that provides shellfish populations with spawning and nursery grounds. However, since the 1870s, fishers in New Bedford are widely using harvesting technology called scallop dredging, which destroyed all the biodiversity and habitat structure. The current fishing industry is unsustainable because its economic structure is exclusively based on the technology that harms the main primary ecological component in Buzzards Bay‘s seabed.
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