A crowd flowed in and out of Bayview Park in Brant Beach all afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 9 as Long Beach Township held its annual Shellabration to honor the area’s long-standing, and recently revitalized, bay culture – in particular the growing and harvesting of mollusks, and the award-winning Oyster Recycling Program that collects empty shells from participating restaurants for use to raise more oysters in the local watershed.
Attendees were able to enjoy fresh shucked oysters from the Barnegat Oyster Collective, Love Oysters, Blood Point…
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