CLIP - Closed-Loop Intertidal Polyculture

**闭环潮间带复合养殖(CLIP)**是一个将海洋养殖场与食物垃圾回收过程相结合的混合系统。这是一种再生水产养殖模式，养殖不同的海洋物种，通过呼吸来清洁水。牡蛎、贻贝和海藻在生长过程中过滤海水；海参从海洋土壤中吸取养分，为其他海参制作食物。它们都改善了海洋栖息地的生物多样性，增加了水中的氧气含量。当这些物种繁荣时，海洋也会繁荣。此外，这些食材营养丰富，产自苏格兰水域，不需要化学药品、化肥或杀虫剂。在苏格兰斯凯岛进行了四年的向更清洁的水产养殖形式过渡的工作后，该中心将设在岛上的一个海湖中。废弃的贝壳将从农场和当地食品企业收集，将它们转化为当地生产的定制瓷砖。这些由食物垃圾制成的新瓷砖也将减少对垃圾填埋场和水道的压力。该设施本身将成为一个站点，为游客提供食物体验，以了解沿海环境。这种新颖的材料将食品、建筑和旅游部门结合在一起，共同关注斯凯岛的海洋生态。该项目标志着实现这一目标的第一步，允许我们进行定制的废物壳瓦的原型设计，并测试和分析农场结构的材料试验，同时建立最可行的海藻和盐沼绿色植物在现场种植。CLIP是CLIMAVORE_的一部分，CLIMAVORE_是一家社区利益公司，致力于探索人类如何在改变气候的同时吃东西。它将改善斯凯岛生态和负责任农产品的供应，支持在新冠疫情和英国脱欧后紧急转向更多的本地食品生产。它帮助居民和游客了解这些物种在保持海洋和我们自己健康方面的重要性。该方案还支持企业在面对气候紧急情况时变得更加可持续，并为该岛居民创造技能培训和长期就业和学徒机会。这就是我们称之为“闭环”的原因：这是一种循环经济，从海产品开始，收集其废物，将其转化为改善海洋的有用材料，提供关心沿海遗产的新方法，从而最终增加营养丰富的海产品的存在。潮间带混养的闭环循环又重新开始了。这就是CLIP再生水和促进健康生态的方式。

**Closed-Loop Intertidal Polyculture (CLIP)** is a hybrid system combining a sea farm with a food waste recycling process. It is a regenerative aquaculture model growing different marine species that clean the water by breathing. Oysters, mussels and seaweeds filter seawater as they grow; and sea cucumbers pull nutrients from the ocean soil to make their own food for others. They all improve the biodiversity of marine habitats and increase the amount of oxygen in the water. When these species thrive so does the ocean. Additionally, these ingredients are highly nutritious, local to Scottish waters, and do not require chemicals, fertilisers or insecticides to grow.Continuing four years of work on transitions to cleaner forms of aquaculture on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, CLIP will be located in a sea loch on the island. Waste shells will be collected from the farm, as well as from local food businesses, to transform them into a bespoke tile produced locally. These new tiles made out of food waste will also reduce pressure on the landfill and waterways. The facility itself will become a site providing food experiences for visitors to learn about the coastal environment. This novel material brings together the food, construction and tourism sectors in a common vision to care for the marine ecology of Skye.This project marks the first steps in realising this ambition, allowing us to conduct prototyping of the bespoke waste shell tile and testing and analysing material trials for the farm structure, alongside establishing the most viable seaweeds and salt marsh greens to cultivate on site.CLIP is part of CLIMAVORE_,_ a Community Interest Company that explores how to eat as humans change the climate. It will improve the availability of ecological and responsible produce in Skye supporting the urgent move to more local food production in the wake of COVID and in the face of Brexit. It helps residents and visitors understand the importance of these species in keeping the ocean and ourselves healthy.CLIP also supports businesses to become more sustainable in the face of the climate emergency and creates skills training and long-term employment and apprenticeship opportunities for residents of the island. That is why we call it a "closed-loop:" it is a circular economy that starts from seafood, collects its waste, makes it into a useful material that improves the ocean, provides novel ways of caring about coastal heritage, which in turn ends up enhancing the presence of nourishing seafood. And the closed-loop cycle of intertidal polyculture starts all over again. This is how CLIP regenerates the water and promotes a healthy ecology.