If you read one thing today, make it Oyster fight: The humble sea creature could hold the key to restoring coastal waters. Developers hate it. Revitalizing oyster farms and wild oyster reefs could undo decades of environmental destruction on our coasts.
It’s not as though nothing is being done to use oysters to fight damage to the environment. One only has to read Northumberland County is part of world’s largest oyster habitat restoration project to get a taste of what is happening on the Northern Neck.
But more can be done. More can always be done.
So, talk with your friends and local elected and appointed officials. Communicate with state and federal officials.
And take action. Join CCA’s reef ball building efforts (see Join in on the fun: Reef ball building in Irvington), plant natives (read Native plants = good for flora and fauna), and plant trees/call for more trees to be planted on the NNK (read Net loss of treed acres on NNK contributes to region and Virginia going in the wrong direction ).
Photo: By Mark Haviland; Oyster Restoration, GREAT WICOMICO RIVER, Va. -- Researchers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science examine oyster spat to see how well the baby oysters are doing on a sanctuary reef in the Great Wicomico River in Virginia.