Oysters are small, but mighty when it comes to the work they're doing in the waterways of New York Harbor.
Oysters are small, but mighty when it comes to the work they're doing in the waterways of New York Harbor.
To date, the project has installed 12 reef sites over seven acres, planted 28 million live oysters, filtered 19.7 trillion gallons of water and collected over 1,300,000 pounds of oyster shells diverted from landfills and returned to the harbor to act as the building blocks for more reef sites. Oyster reefs have the ability to naturally filter water as they eat, which helps clarify the water and remove pollutants like nitrogen.
In partnership with the New York Harbor School, a maritime high school on Governor's Island, students learn restoration through hands-on curriculum about the underwater conditions on active floating eco docks, help breed new oysters in the nursery and oversee their growth as larva attach to recycled shells inside the hatchery.
Once the oysters spawn and set to recycled shells, they are placed inside large tanks in the facility's hatchery.
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