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Offer Your Shell To Enhance Restoration (OYSTER)
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How many gallons of water does an oyster filter each day?
40 gallons Source: |
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Restaurant Sponsors |
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Peg Leg Pete’s Marina Oyster Barn |
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The Offer Your Shell To Enhance Restoration (OYSTER) Project at Bayview Park is a cooperative effort between Clean & Green, Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Southern Company and the National Fish and Wildlife Service supported by our local partners. The project seeks to collect oyster shell from local restaurant partners to be used as substrate to restore 22 oyster reefs in Bayou Texar.
The Clean & Green staff and volunteers are responsible for routine pick up of oyster shell from participating restaurants. Shells are then dried at a local staging area prior to deployment to each permitted reef site. |
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Interested in Volunteering?
Contact the OYSTER Team Project at 850.438.1178
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The shell is loaded into 5 gallon buckets and then poured into tubes with nets. The tube is removed and the bag is tied and ready to be placed in the reef. |
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Once deployed, clean oyster shells act as preferred substrate which attracts oyster larvae, or spat. Oyster spat are mobile during the larval stage and move with currents and tides until they select a place to settle or “set”. The larvae are selective and prefer a cleaner surface; this is why recycled shell is the preferred material. |
