CLIP - Closed-Loop Intertidal Polyculture

** 封闭式潮间带混养（CLIP）** 是一种混合系统，将海洋农场与食物垃圾回收过程相结合。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;海参从海洋土壤中汲取营养，为其他动物制造食物。它们都改善了海洋栖息地的生物多样性，增加了水中的氧气量。当这些物种繁荣时，海洋也是如此。此外，这些成分营养丰富，是苏格兰沃茨的本地产品，不需要化学品、肥料或杀虫剂就能生长。CLIP将继续在苏格兰斯凯岛向更清洁的水产养殖形式过渡的四年工作，并将位于岛上的一个海洛赫中。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食物体验的场所，以了解沿海环境。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，使我们能够对定制的废贝壳砖进行原型设计，并对农场结构的材料试验进行测试和分析，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情况下进食。它将改善斯凯岛生态和负责任农产品的供应，支持在COVID疫情后和英国退欧后紧急转向更多本地食品生产。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。CLIP还支持企业在面对气候紧急情况时变得更加可持续，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“闭环”：这是一种循环经济，从海鲜开始，收集其废物，使其成为改善海洋的有用材料，提供了关心沿海遗产的新方法，这反过来又增加了营养海鲜的存在。潮间带混养的封闭循环又重新开始。这就是CLIP如何再生水和促进健康的生态。

**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.