Wally Fulweiler Featured in the Brink

Wally Fulweiler was featured in The Brink’s “Some Boston Harbor Shellfish Is Now Safe to Eat—Why Is That a Big Deal?” The article describes how the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) deemed the soft shellfish of certain areas of Massachusetts safe to eat straight out of the water. The DMF says it is the result of a “decades-long Boston Harbor clean-up.”

In a Q&A, Fulweiler explains the effect of excess nitrogen from sewage and fertilizer on wildlife, creating algal blooms that block light from sea grass, and take up oxygen when they decompose. Fulweiler researches the mechanism of oysters in improving water quality by increasing denitrification, and says, “So far, it looks like it’s helping.”

Read The Brink for a Q&A with Fulweiler here.