Volunteers grow oysters to restore reefs, clean water
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – The Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium is looking for volunteer oyster gardeners with waterfront property.
Extension specialist P.J. Waters says the program provides the “gardens.” Those are wire cages about a foot or so long, seeded with shells on which tiny baby oysters called “spat” have attached themselves.
He says all the gardeners need to do is shake them periodically and wash off any mud or algae that may have settled on the shells.
Waters says that helps keep them free of predators.
Waters says the project began in 2000 in Alabama, and now is spreading to Mississippi.
