BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) It’s time to agitate the oysters at St. Stanislaus High School on Mississippi's Gulf coast. Students on a platform below the school’s long pier gently shake their oyster garden's wire cages as they pull them from the water, loosening mud and algae that might keep water and nutrients from baby oysters clinging to those shells.
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) It’s time to agitate the oysters at St. Stanislaus High School on Mississippi's Gulf coast. Students on a platform below the school’s long pier gently shake their oyster garden's wire cages as they pull them from the water, loosening mud and algae that might keep water and nutrients from baby oysters clinging to those shells.
There are more than 1,000 oyster gardens in the coastal waters of Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama as volunteers try to restore a keystone of coastal ecosystems.