Adult and school-age volunteers help bag the oyster shells that serve as the foundation for the new reefs and then relay the heavy bags into place, all the while getting a hands-on lesson in oyster ecology.
Student volunteers deploy a new reef.
Program name
Florida Sea Grant
Location
Indian River Lagoon on Florida’s Atlantic coast
State
Florida
Purpose
Florida Sea Grant is partnering with St. Lucie County and the Florida Oceanographic Society to create a volunteer-based program of reef restoration that has, since its creation in 2006, resulted in over 2 miles of new oyster reef in the Indian River Lagoo
Partners
St. Lucie County; Florida Oceanographic Society
Project Topics
Restoration/Clean-ups
Project Website