Alabama News Center — Teams help salvage live oysters from artificial oyster reefs on Alabama shoreline

By: Allanah Taylor

Mobile Bay area conservation organizations and volunteers gathered at the southernmost point of Bayou La Batre to help salvage oysters, an important component of the Gulf Coast marine ecosystem.

The efforts focused on helping salvage live oysters from artificial oyster reefs, called ReefBlksTM, to clean up the waterways before the next stage of restoration at Coffee Island.

“At the Coffee Island Project, we’re permitting a 2-mile rock breakwater on the southeast side, and we’re hoping to put it out for bid late summer or early fall,” said Mary-Kate Brown, assistant coastal program director for the Nature Conservancy in Alabama.

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