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
Robert Caballero(504) 286-4054
rcaballero@wlf.la.gov
Project Website
None
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