Being vegan, ironically one of my first thoughts about this headline was whether it’s unethical exploitation of animals, so I’ll weigh in:

• Bivalves have very rudimentary nerve nets, making it questionable if they feel pain (I still don’t eat them because humans have a habit of walking back that line for less and less cognitively complex animals, and there is at least some existing evidence of a pain response), let alone have more complex feelings.
• Bivalves tend to be good for the quality of surrounding waters.
• I think it’s worth assigning more moral consideration to the orders of magnitude more animals whose suffering is prevented by dampening these intense storms.