Two local community leaders have collaborated to share the story of the oyster, and Provides a sustainable source of this required substrate for restoration efforts. Shells, at which point they become spat (young, settled oysters). Oyster larvae float in the water column for about three weeksīefore settling to the bottom and adhering to a hard substrate, often other oyster Jersey’s oyster population has plummeted over the years due to changes in water quality,ĭisease and overharvest.
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Oysters are filter-feeding invertebrates that colonize reefs. Recycled shell was first gathered in 2015-16 as a pilot project with the Old Causeway “This is an important initiative and one that I have been trying to do for a long To coordinate shell transport while the Jetty Rock Foundation provides marketing and Long Beach Township will provide the support staff and vehicles Recycled shell from restaurants in the Long Beach Island region will now become part University, Parsons Mariculture and restaurants in the Long Beach Island region to Stewardship, Long Beach Township and the Jetty Rock Foundation teamed up with Stockton To continue growth of the experimental reef and to engage the community in environmental Like flounder, weakfish, black drum, blowfish and others.įishing over the research lease is encouraged, but as a leased site, the harvest of The site also has red-bearded sponge, blue crabs and several species of small finfish.Īs it matures, the site should be an excellent area to target recreational fish species Is the potential for natural growth beyond the restoration project. Including wild-set oysters, hard clams, slipper shells and barnacles, indicating there Thompson, assistant professor of Marine Science, and her students at Stockton areīiodiversity sampling using traps and visual assessments has revealed sets of shellfish, The two-acre research site is located in the Middle Grounds area of Little Egg Harborīay with initial and future aquaculture work being done by Parsons Mariculture. This year’s planting is funded by the Jetty Rock Foundation with in-kind contributionsįrom Parsons Mariculture and Stockton University. Remained in place, suggesting that our site selection was appropriate.” “At the Tuckerton site both oyster types are staying up out of the sediment and have Of Stockton’s Marine Field Station and principal investigator for the research project. The Mullica River seed is of mixed size up to 2 inches,” said Steve Evert, manager The spat on whelk shell set is 1.5-2 inches long and Seed was transplanted in November (2016).
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Innovation Center, were planted on the reef sites last July and the Mullica River
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The disease-resistant aquaculture-set oysters, spawned by the Rutgers Aquaculture The Toms River Good Luck Point site, led by Al Modjeski of the American Littoral Society. The balance of the funding has contributed to continued efforts on Reef with aquaculture-set oyster spat on whelk shell and transplanted seed from the The team was awarded $52,000, most of which was used to establish the pilot-level Tuckerton In 2015, Stockton University’s Marine Field Station partnered with Parson’s Mariculture and the American Littoral Society on a proposal to the Barnegat Bay Partnership's shellfish research program. The project has also generated an expanded oyster recycling program, using shells In the Tuckerton Reef, the first-ever bottom oyster restoration site in the Southern – More than 150,000 baby oysters, or spat, will be planted next week