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A new suite of research has found efforts to restore oyster reefs on the U.S. East Coast has knock-on effects benefitting the ...
Bryce Coates, a USM Gulf Coast Research Summer Field Program student, holds a bag of oyster ... reefs where baby oysters can grow and continue to support other marine life, according to the NOAA.
There are more than 1,700 points where sediment from dirt roads end up washing into local waterways. Officials want to craft a plan to fix them.
Rising sea levels are forcing communities up and down the East Coast to adapt. With its meager infrastructure, few are as vulnerable as Hogg Hummock.
The Pensacola and Perdido Bay Estuary Program will use NOAA grant funds to locate the ... the Pensacola Bay System supported abundant oyster reefs and was a sustainable commercial harvesting ...
In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...
"We can tell that the work that we’re doing is recruiting new oyster shells, which then will create additional habitats and ...
For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation—and ...
Anglers rely on NOAA data ... on NOAA’s research. “Fishermen are very reliant on NOAA for a lot of things,” said Eric Brazer, the deputy director of Gulf of America Reef Fish Shareholders ...
They were packaged up and driven 150 miles to the Texas coast to be used in an oyster reef rehabilitation project led by the Harte Research Institute out of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi.