America Invests in N.C. Estuaries - Hatteras Sanctuary

Coastal North Carolina is getting a $5 million slice of federal stimulus funding to restore its oyster reefs and fisheries economy.

Contractors, barge workers, truck drivers and many other coastal residents are being paid through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to plant oyster shell and limestone marl, which form the foundations for new oyster reefs.

The project is led by the N.C. Coastal Federation with the help of N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. Sea Grant research, including work funded by the N.C. Fishery Resource Grant, helped determine the new reef locations and designs.

North Carolina Sea Grant and the Coastal Federation will work together in 2010 to examine how fish populations respond to these new undersea habitats.

To learn more, go to: http://www.ncseagrant.org/home/about-ncsg/news-events?task=showArticle&id...

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