Last month, as part of the second stage of the multifacted, partner-driven Conservation Opportunities Advancing Sustainable Technologies for Aquaculture Leases’ (COASTAL) project, nine area shellfish aquaculture producers deployed oyster spat – baby oysters – on recycled shell material at two restoration reefs managed and monitored by Stockton University: the Tuckerton Reef, which was established in 2016, and the Mill Creek Reef, established in 2022.
The reef planting was the second of four plantings currently funded through the project, for which the Ocean County…
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