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Enhancing Oyster Recovery Using Brood Reefs

Implementing Organization

State of Louisiana

Overview

DWH Project Funding

$9,701,447

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Funding Organization

Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees (NRDA)

Funding Program

Natural Resource Damage Assessment NRDA

Details

Project Category

Environmental

Project Actions

Species Restoration

Targeted Resources

Oysters/Reefs

Project Description

The project will develop a network of brood reefs that will serve as a spawning stock to improve and maintain oyster production on Louisiana’s Public Oyster Seed Grounds (POSG) and Public Oyster Seed Reservations (POSR). The first component of the brood reef project will establish four reefs east of the Mississippi River: two in the Lake Machais/Mozambique Point area and two in the Petit Pass/Bay Boudreaux area. The project will programmatically plan for inclusion of additional brood reefs within the footprints of other POSGs or POSRs with suitable hydrologic conditions and bottom composition, which may include modelling exercises and/or acquisition of bottom assessment data.

Contact

Carolina Bourque
(337) 735-8726
cbourque@wlf.la.gov
Project Website
Project Partners

None

Affiliated Institutions

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