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Newsday August 3, 2023
FoBB collaborates with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County… Click Here For More
Cornell Aquaculture Specialist Gregg Rivara on his bi-annual SCUBA dive, assessing FoBB's shellfish plantings in the Shellfish Management Area of Bellport Bay (managed by FoBB for the Town of Brookhaven).
Gregg confirmed that our filter feeding oysters and bivalves (approximately 4.8 million to date) are healthy and thriving on the Bay bottom, with a 75% survival rate; restoring the ecosystem, filtering water, and creating habitat for other marine creatures.
In 2020, Friends of Bellport Bay partnered with The Nature Conservancy and The Pew Charitable Trusts to purchase tens of thousands of large, spawning overstock oysters from local shellfish farmers whose businesses were affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and planted them in our protected shellfish management area. They continue to filter and clean the water in Bellport Bay.
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