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Recycled shells were brought to Forked River Beach as part of The American Littoral's restoration project to promote re-oystering waters, provide habitat for fish, and protect communities from erosion and wave damage.
Recycled shells were brought to Forked River Beach as part of The American Littoral's restoration project to promote re-oystering waters, provide habitat for fish, and protect communities from erosion and wave damage.
The State We're In: Oysters at work - cleaning water, preventing erosion, helping marine life
For the past eight years, the Highlands-based American Littoral Society and partner Stockton University, along with concerned community members, have been quietly bringing to life a living shoreline project on Barnegat Bay. When completed, according to the society’s Executive Director Tim Dillingham, it will be “the biggest of its kind going on in New Jersey, so far.”
It’s hoped that steel cages, rocks, shells and 70 million juvenile oysters will finally turn the tide on the massive erosion threatening beaches and beachfront houses.