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Happy Holidays to all from Friends of Bellport Bay! Thank you to the FoBB team, and all of our partners, collaborators and supporters. #fobb #townofbrookhaven #nysdec #ccesc
�FoBB has been working to rebuild the Bay’s natural habitat since 2015. These are images captured by Aquaculture Specialist Gregg Rivara of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, during October’s scuba dive with FoBB C
Christina, a first year Masters student at Stonybrook University, certified diver, and FoBB Co-Director joined Cornell Aquaculture Specialist Gregg Rivara for his bi-annual dive last week, assessing FoBB’s Management Area at the Town of Brookha
7am last week, the FoBB water operations team went out on the Bay for the last planting of the season. We transported 60,000 Aeros Cultured oysters from the nursery garden cages to the Bay bottom in the Town’s sanctuary. These oysters started o
An early morning run on Bellport Bay this Wednesday with Marine Biologist Chelsea Miller on board from the New York State DEC checking on our oyster restoration work. We added 30,000 Aeros Cultured oysters grown-out from our nursery gardens to the ov
FoBB joined the Cornell team yesterday, planting their Spat~On~Shell (SOS) along the Bellport Bay shoreline. This planting adds shell seeded with hundreds of thousands of oysters, revitalizing our Bay bottom, building habitat for wildlife, and protec
Happy Labor Day and a huge shout out to our Water Operations dream team for all your dedication and hard work this summer, planting hundreds of thousands of oysters in the Bellport Bay Sanctuary, adding habitat, and restoring the Bay’s marine e
Great news in from Cornell's ccemarineprogram! " CCE Marine Aquaculture Specialist Gregg John Rivara and Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program is working with the Friends of Bellport Bay- Fobb studying and restoring shellfish habitat to t
Thank you to the Duffy Foundation, and to CEED, and the Boys & Girls Club of Bellport for a week long collaboration in a marine program with FoBB. The Restoration Team of teen members identified and recorded marine species in Bellport Bay, seine
FoBB’s newest Initiative is Spat On Shell ("SOS") On July 27th, FoBB collaborated with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (CCESC) and began the planting of Cornell’s 100 cubic feet of SOS, which translates to appr
Last Saturday, FoBB hosted a children’s event on Habitat Restoration for the Bellport Brookhaven  Historical Society, at Mother’s Beach in Bellport. FoBB interns were impressed with the interest these young kids (ages 4-8) took
Measuring 250,000 juvenile Aeros oysters into 250 bags of 1,000 oysters into each bag takes focus and time ! Community supporters, FoBB interns, and volunteers all rallied together for most of a day, counting, measuring and securing the mesh bags.&nb
Join Friends of Bellport Bay at Bash By the Bay, this Saturday hosted by the Mastic Beach Conservancy. It's a free community event immediately following Race the Narrows with Brooklyn Band, and lovetempo. Irresistibly danceable, lovetempo is the new
3rd cleaning of the FLUPSY! Keeping our FLUPSY (Floating Upweller System) clear of algae and barnacles for our 125,000 Aeros baby oysters is an essential part of our work ! Their growth is fast! In 3 weeks their total volume has gone from 2.8 L to
Last Thursday the FoBB team went out on Bellport Bay with Gregg Rivara, Aquaculture Specialist/ Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County (CCESC). Gregg built and deployed 10 Oyster Spat Collectors into Bellport Bay’s Town
Thank you to Craig Strong, Brookhaven Town Bay Management Specialist!  For more than 6 years, Brookhaven Town has donated hundreds of thousands of oysters to Friends of Bellport Bay, collaborating on a mission to restore the Bay’s ecosyste
On May 26th the FoBB team of interns and directors cleaned, measured, and collected more data on 125,00 oyster seed in the FLUPSY.  When the Aeros oyster seed was installed in the FLUPSY April 15th, we had a volume of 750 ml. Three weeks later
Dedicating time to oyster restoration and protecting the ecosystem is vital to the survival of the Bay! FoBB intern Habiba, and Director of Shellfish Restoration; Thomas Schultz have begun the installation of 35 oyster cage gardens in the Bay, which
The Floating Upweller System (FLUPSY) is up and running! FoBB intern Habiba measured size, volume and general assessment of approximately 125,000 oysters growing in the FLUPSY. Documenting an increase in volume of 460 ml in 3 weeks, the oysters are g
We navigated through the fog alongside shellfish grower Mike Mission of Little A’s Oysters, working together to plant thousands of oysters into FoBB’s protected management area in Bellport Bay. FoBB collaborated with Mike and several other local she…

We navigated through the fog alongside shellfish grower Mike Mission of Little A’s Oysters, working together to plant thousands of oysters into FoBB’s protected management area in Bellport Bay. FoBB collaborated with Mike and several other local shellfish farmers as part of the Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration (SOAR) program with The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Gino Macchio Foundation. — December 2020

Collaborating with local shellfish farmers to plant thousands of oysters into our protected management area in Bellport Bay. We partnered with The Nature Conservancy and The Pew Charitable Trusts to purchase large, spawning overstock oysters from lo…

Collaborating with local shellfish farmers to plant thousands of oysters into our protected management area in Bellport Bay. We partnered with The Nature Conservancy and The Pew Charitable Trusts to purchase large, spawning overstock oysters from local farmers whose businesses were affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and plant them in the Bay to revitalize the ecosystem — December 2020

Heading out to plant with local shellfish farmers as part of the SOAR program. — December 2020

Heading out to plant with local shellfish farmers as part of the SOAR program — December 2020

Members of the community gather to celebrate one million oysters planted — October 25th 2020

Members of the community gather to celebrate one million oysters planted — October 25th 2020

Planting our final 60,000 oysters in Bellport Bay, reaching our 5-year goal of 1 million oysters — October 25th 2020

Planting our final 60,000 oysters in Bellport Bay, reaching our 5-year goal of 1 million oysters — October 25th 2020

Measuring and recording oyster size before our last planting of 2020 — October 25th 2020

Measuring and recording oyster size before our last planting of 2020 — October 25th 2020

Volunteers at our October 25th planting. Final planting of 2020!

Volunteers at our final planting of the year on October 25th, 2020!