CLIP - Closed-Loop Intertidal Polyculture

**闭环式潮间带混合养殖(CLIP)**是一个混合系统，结合了一个海洋养殖场和一个食物垃圾回收过程。这是一种再生水产养殖模式，种植不同的海洋物种，通过呼吸来净化水域。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营养物质，为他人制作自己的食物。它们都改善了海洋生物多样性，增加了水中的氧气量。当这些物种繁荣昌盛时，海洋也是如此。此外，这些成分营养丰富，是苏格兰水域的本地原料，不需要化学品、化肥或杀虫剂就能生长。在苏格兰斯凯岛继续四年向更清洁的水产养殖过渡的工作中，CLIP将位于该岛的一个海湖中。废弃的贝壳将从农场和当地食品店收集，将它们改造成当地生产的定制瓷砖。这些用食物垃圾制成的新瓷砖也将减轻垃圾填埋场和水道的压力。该设施本身将成为一个为游客提供美食体验的场所，让他们了解沿海环境。这种新型材料将食品、建筑和旅游部门聚集在一起，共同关心天空的海洋生态。这个项目标志着实现这一雄心的第一步，使我们能够对定制的废弃贝壳瓷砖进行原型制作，并对农场结构进行材料试验和分析，同时建立最可行的海藻和盐沼绿色植物来在现场种植。CLIP是CLIMAVORE_的一部分，CLIMAVORE_是一家社区利益公司，探索如何在人类改变气候的同时进食。它将改善斯凯生态和负责任的农产品的可获得性，支持在COVID之后和面对英国退欧的情况下紧急转向更多的当地粮食生产。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。CLIP还支持企业在面对气候紧急情况时变得更可持续，并为岛上居民创造技能培训和长期就业和学徒机会。这就是为什么我们称之为“闭合循环”：这是一种循环经济，从海鲜开始，收集海鲜废物，使其成为一种有用的材料，改善海洋，提供关心沿海遗产的新方法，这反过来又增加了营养丰富的海鲜的存在。而潮间带混养的闭环循环又重新开始了。这就是CLIP如何再生水，促进健康生态。

**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.