In one of its formal resolutions adopted just before the start of the new year, Long Beach Township touted the success of the municipality’s Oyster Recycling Program, established in 2017 in coordination with marketing and outreach partner the Jetty Rock Foundation, as well as Stockton University.

The project entails the township’s collection of empty oyster shells from area dining establishments for use in raising more oysters in the Barnegat Bay/Little Egg Harbor Estuary.