See how families living near Galveston Bay are working to restore reefs through oyster gardening!
Oyster reefs are one of the worlds most threatened marine habitats. In Galveston Bay alone, more than 50 percent of the oyster reefs have been damaged or destroyed in recent years, in part because of major hurricanes like Ike and Harvey.
"The Galveston Bay Foundation works with seafood restaurants spanning from Galveston into Clear Lake and all the way into the inner loop of Houston collect their shells on a weekly basis," said Haille Leija, Habitat Restoration Manager with the Galveston Bay Foundation. "The reason we want these shells, they're actually great habitat or substrate, some might say, for baby oysters," said Leija.
"It's really low tech," said Peyton. "You're putting clean shells in a bag in the water. You just want to keep it clean so that oyster spat will stick to that shell. You rinse them once a week and at the end of the summer you've probably grown a lot of baby oysters."
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