[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Oysters at Earle Naval Weapons Station (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Modest start for tiny oysters in Raritan Bay

Written by Kirk Moore
My Central Jersey
October 7, 2011

It's a modest start, but 3,600 tiny oysters hanging in nets off the  
pier at Naval Weapons Station Earle could be the pathfinders that  
show how to re-establish oyster reefs in Raritan Bay, researchers  
said Thursday.

 "It would signal to us that the water here can support oysters for  
longer term survival," said Beth Ravit, a Rutgers University  
professor working on oyster restoration with the NY/NJ Baykeeper  
program.

 "We're talking about restoring more than oysters. We're talking  
about restoring a habitat type," said Frank Steimle, a biologist  
retired from the federal fisheries laboratory at Sandy Hook and now a  
volunteer with Baykeeper.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20111007/NJNEWS/310070038/ 
Modest-start-for-tiny-oysters-in-Raritan-Bay


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