Oyster Reefs...Why?

On Jan. 22, 2011 Mobile BAYKEEPER, Nature Conservancy and many other groups and agencies teamed up to recreate oyster reefs for marsh protection.
Due to over harvesting, pollution and other reasons the oyster reefs have been severely depleted. This project is one of many scheduled to help the architects of the Gulf, the oysters, to make a comeback so they can once again flourish, creating more marsh habitat in the process.

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[hccreekkeeper]

@Myaucat

Agreed. In this case, the root cause of the loss of marsh was over harvesting the oyster reef. This project started long before BP. Even if the reef does not "flourish" with edible oysters, it will at least give the marsh grasses a chance to regenerate. At least that is the hope.

[Myaucat]

NOTHING is going to flourish in the gulf anymore. Not in a soup of oil, methane and corexit. It's dead. The seafloor is cracked and it's STILL leaking - nothing has been "fixed" & corexit is STILL being pumped. The toxins are spreading across ALL the oceans and killing sea-life everywhere. If there is a cataclysm of epic proportions, you can be sure, BP is the cause of it.

[hccreekkeeper]

@Myaucat

So you are saying that we should just sit and do nothing. I agree that there are problems but the Gulf as well as the oceans will recover after man dies of and quits polluting them.

I do not agree that nothing should be done to try to help things along. This video is about the spirit of the people doing something positive.

She's sick, my friend but a long way from dead.

[PROFILESophiaYates]

The thing is you can place all the oyster reefs where ever you want around there but I am scared to death about what's in the water they r going to be growing in. I know they r trying to do a good thing but we all know whats happened & what hasn't been done & what remains. Until we know 4 sure it is safe but im going to be blunt. It wont for a long time. Im just so blown away @ the neglect of our own gov with all this. What a shame.

[GuerreraZorra]

Thank you for all your efforts. Americans must begin somewhere and this is a valiant attempt. I/we appreciate you.

[Myaucat]

@hccreekkeeper The root cause, is the corruption in the government, and what is being done about that? It continues to allow BP to drill in the gulf; it continues to allow BP to release corexit - which is 10 times more toxic than the oil iteslf; it allows the criminal, BP, to investigate its own crime; it continues to allow BP to have SOLE access to the area under investigation; it takes the criminals word for it when it says that it has "fixed" the leak! Preposterous!

[Myaucat]

@hccreekkeeper With oil and corexit still being released, any efforts at regeneration will be as good as futile, or at best - will only amount to organisms being born with genetic mutations, defects, and filled with toxins which will make them dangerous to consume. But of course no mechanisms are in place to even test for that, so people will consume these animals unknowingly poisoning themselves.

[Myaucat]

@hccreekkeeper If the government had proper regulations in place in the first place, that had safe-guards to prevent the destruction of the eco-system by whatever means (over-harvesting, over-fishing, over-clear cutting, etc.) then this wouldn't be an issue. But no... no safe-guards are in place and the band-aid solutions are applied only AFTER the damage is done.. with the root cause still not addressed.

[Myaucat]

@hccreekkeeper no, that's not what i'm saying. as with healing any condition, you need to get at the root source of the problem, not just treating the symptoms.

[fal2grace]

Thank you for this update.