BALTIMORE —A Baltimore startup company has created a high-tech, revolutionary way to farm oysters.

Oysters are the Chesapeake Bay’s most effective water filtration system, ridding the bay of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. Just one oyster is capable of screening 50 gallons of water a day. So there’s an effort underway to replenish the bay’s oyster population.

Mark Rice, the principal owner and manager of Solar Oysters, wants to beef up the filtration process in a big way. His automated photovoltaic oyster production system has the potential to produce up to 2.4 million oysters a year in 45 times less space than a traditional aquaculture farm. Watch here.