Thanks to everyone who supported our funding campaign to kickstart of movie. We successfully raised £6,445 which is more than we aimed for.
Video production will start in September 2015.
The Mussel Power movie will help the battle against climate change so please  stay in touch

Last call and last chance to support stage 1 of the crowd funded documentary film  project Mussel Power which explores how farmed shellfish can help in the fight against Climate Change. The project has reached its initial target but any further support would be very welcome before the funding deadline of tomorrow  9am, Wednesday August 19.  Thank you all very much !

Location filming will start next month – weather permitting , it’s been pretty windy!

Latest backers are Janet Brown, The Shellfish Team, who is also the Editor of The Grower,  and Thomas Shellfish, Wales’ only producer of rope grown mussels situated in the Queen’s Dock,  Swansea.

"It's great that these benefits of mussel farming are being highlighted," Melony Nichols, Thomas Shellfish Ltd.

 

Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group is backing the crowd funding documentary film project Mussel Power, which will explore the way in which farmed shellfish can help in the fight against climate change.

Rob Mitchell, Commercial Director, Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group says “We are delighted to support the Mussel Power project because mussel farming is an incredibly low carbon footprint method of food production – and it is important to highlight this to consumers so that they can make informed choices when purchasing seafood.

 

“We are very proud of the sustainable nature of Scottish mussel cultivation. Furthermore, mussels taste great and consuming them is good for your health because they contain many important minerals and vitamins and are also a good source of Omega-3.” 

Hot TV presenter & author Rick Edwards of the current, outrageous & controversial ITV2 Safeword, and of BBC3 Your Shout, Channel 4/E4/T4 Tool Academy, Freshly Squeezed, E4 Music, That Paralympic Show and author of ‘None of the Above’ aimed at getting young people to vote, is backing the crowd funding documentary film project Mussel Power which explores how farmed shell fish can help in the fight against climate change.

“Climate change could be mitigated by mussels. Yes, mussels. All we have to do is grow more of them. And then eat them. And then grow more. And then eat them. And so on.

I like the sound of that, so I'm supporting a documentary film called 'MUSSEL POWER' (strong title) which will explore how these humble shellfish could save the planet. PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY,” says Rick

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Offshore Shellfish Ltd is pleased to endorse the crowd funding documentary film project Mussel Power, which will explore the way in which farmed shellfish could help in the fight against climate change.

“Mussel Power is a great idea for a film and will help a lot more people to understand just how wonderful these shellfish are. They not only taste great and are good for your health, but growing them is also good for our oceans and our planet, so that’s even more reason to eat them!” said Offshore Shellfish MD John Holmyard.

Offshore Shellfish Ltd is developing the UK’s first large scale offshore rope culture mussel farm, in Lyme Bay off the coast of Devon, which represents a quantum shift in the way mussels are grown in Europe.

Bangor mussel producers, which  is made up of the operating companies (Myti Mussels, Extramussels, Deepdock and Ogwen) and operate in the north end of the Menai Strait, North Wales,  is backing the crowd funding documentary film project Mussel Power, exploring how farmed shellfish can help fight climate change.

“If I had the capacity and imagination to make a film - this would be its subject. It’s difficult for us to comprehend how anyone could fail to realise just how amazing mussels are - they look good, they taste great, they are healthy to eat and help to take some of the muck that society puts into the seas and oceans and turns it into something amazing,” says James Wilson. 

Scottish  broadcaster, writer and Shetland resident Tom Morton endorses the crowd funding  documentary film project Mussel Power about  exploring how farmed shellfish could help in the fight against climate change.

"I'm really excited by the whole Mussel Power project, which is in the excellent and entirely trustworthy hands of Small World Productions and Justyn Jones, with whom I've worked closely in the past.

The potential of farmed mussels as not only a wonderfully tasty, healthy food but as a major contributor to preserving and reclaiming the environment is vast, and this documentary could be of massive importance to the future of not just the seafood industry but the planet. 

I wholeheartedly commend it you for your support," says Tom

'The Mussel Power film is such an exciting and different project because it doesn't just want to discuss the issue of climate change - it wants to do something about it. If we can affect global warming and get carbon back into the ground by growing and eating more shellfish, it seems like a brilliant idea to me, " says Emer

An Indiana University study has revealed that there may be a greater connection between mussels and muscles than previously thought.

The study, by kinesiology professor Timothy Mickleborough at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, found that taking a pre-exercise supplement of the omega-3 PCSO-524, a marine oil lipid derived from the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, has significant positive effects on post-exercise muscle damage.

The pharmaceutical name of the supplement is Lyprinol, or Omega XL in the United States, and it has previously been used to effectively reduce the effects of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and exercise-induced asthma. Pharmalink International LTD, which funded the study, develops it.

Mickleborough said his initial study of this particular marine oil supplement led him to further test its healing properties on other parts of the body.

"I've worked with Pharmalink before when they approached me to do a study with this particular oil and its effects on exercise-induced asthma and respiratory inflammation," Mickleborough said. "I thought if it can be used as an anti-inflammatory for lungs, perhaps it could reverse muscle inflammation as well."

http://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2015/02/mickleborough-marine-oil-supplement.shtml

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http://www.jissn.com/content/12/1/10

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Mussels-for-muscles-Green-lipped-mussel-extract-may-ease-muscle-damage-during-exercise

The Mumbles Oyster Company, which is reviving the oyster industry in South Wales, is supporting the Mussel Power the documentary film project about shellfish and climate change.

"We are really excited by the Mussel Power project at the Mumbles Oyster Company. We have been promoting the restoration of native oyster beds to replace the lost ecosystem services beyond the beautiful oysters that end up on our plates.  We are proud to support the Mussel Power project and its message that shellfish can help address some of the oceans most pressing issues"  Dr Andy Woolmer, Mumbles Oyster Company Ltd.