American Littoral Society is
still recruiting volunteers for this week's Project PORTS ( Promoting Oyster Restoration Through
Schools) oyster restoration activities. For the 6th straight year,
students throughout South Jersey made shell-filled mesh bags (oyster spat
collectors) as part of Project PORTS: Rutgers Cousteau Center at Bridgeton and American
Littoral Society's education and community-based oyster restoration program to
help revitalize Delaware Bay oyster populations and the important fish habitat
their reefs provide. The oyster is a keystone species in the bay: improving
water quality and providing food, habitat and refuge to countless
organisms.
The shell bags serve as a settlement surface for young oysters (spat) when the
bay's oyster population spawns this summer. In August, the spat-on-shell will
be transplanted to restoration and fishery sites in the upper
bay.
American Littoral Society has 2 separate tasks for which they'll need
volunteers:
1) Loading a barge with shell bags (Thursday, June 21st 10-12 PM Port Norris, NJ)
2) Arranging the bags on the sand flats during low tide (Saturday, June 23rd 4-6 PM Green Creek, NJ)
If you can help on any or all of these days, please
contact Jessica Daher at 856-825-2174 or jessica@littoralsociety.org.
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