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Recent Intertidal Oyster Restoration Research in Georgia
Manley, J. A.J. Power, R. Walker, D. Hurley, C. Belcher, and M. Gilligan, 2010. Evaluation of eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791), restoration techniques for use in intertidal southeastern united states habitats characterized by heavy siltation rates. Occasional Papers of the University of Georgia Marine Extension Service, Vol. 9, 32pp.
USA Restoration Briefs
Volume Seven: Hypoxia and Juvenile Oyster Survival. Summer 2011.
Recent Research on Living Shorelines In Alabama
Scyphers, S.B., S.P. Powers, K.L. Heck, Jr.., and D. Byron, 2011. Oyster reefs as natural breakwaters mitigate shoreline loss and facilitate fisheries. PLoS ONE 6(8):e22396. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022396
USA Restoration Briefs
Volume Six: Oyster Reefs and Coastal Societies. Spring 2011.
USA Restoration Briefs
Volume Five: Oyster Reefs as Breakwaters to Protect Shorelines. Winter 2011.
An Evaluation of Native Oyster Restoration in Chesapeake Bay 1990-Present
Oyster Restoration Evaluation Team
USA Restoration Briefs
Volume Four: Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs. Fall 2010.
Native Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Restoration in Maryland and Virginia: An Evaluation of Lessons Learned 1990-2007
Oyster Restoration Evaluation Team, 44 pp., UM-SG-TS-2009-02
The Importance of Habitat Created by Molluscan Shellfish to Managed Species along the Atlantic Coast of the United States
ASMFC, 2007. Prepared by Coen, L.D., and R. Grizzle, with contributions by J. Lowery and K.T. Paynter, Jr., 106pp.
Contemporary Approaches for Small-Scale Oyster Reef Restoration to Address Substrate Versus Recruitment Limitation: A Review and Comments Relevant for the Olympia Oyster, Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864
Journal of Shellfish Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, 147-161, 2009.
Restoring the Olympia Oyster, Ostrea conchaphila
Habitat Connections Volume 6, Number 2 (2008) from NOAA.
West Coast Community Restoration Efforts
Puget Sound Restoration Fund’s Winter 2008 newsletter recaps the 2nd Annual West Coast Oyster Workshop and discusses habitat enhancement throughout Puget Sound.
Shellfish Reefs at Risk: A Global Study
The Nature Conservancy has put together a PDF fact sheet on its project to identify the state, condition, and action needed to conserve shellfish ecosystems.
The working group has also published a related paper in BioScience (see Beck, M.W., R.D. Brumbaugh, L. Airoldi, A. Carranza, L.D. Coen, C. Crawford, O. Defeo, G.J. Edgar, B. Hancock., M.C. Kay, H.S. Lenihan, M.W. Luckenbach, C.L. Toropova, G. Zhang, and X. Guo, 2011. Oyster reefs at risk and recommendations for conservation, restoration and management. BioScience 61:107–116) with the final analyses and conclusions.More information (report, fact sheet, including distribution maps, and BioScience paper) can be found below.
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Bioscience article (PDF)
Related NY Times Editorial
Development of an Automated Mapping Technique for Monitoring and Managing Shellfish Distributions
A final report submitted to the NOAA⁄UNH Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET).
Keywords: Remote sensing, Shellfish mapping, Resource management, Mixture Tuned Matched Filtering (MTMF), Automated Feature Extraction, Classification and Regression Tree Analysis, Hyperspectral, LiDAR
Design & Monitoring of Shellfish Restoration Projects
This Practitioner’s Guide grew out of a workshop convened by The Nature Conservancy and the NOAA Restoration Center in 2005 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama.
The Importance of Habitat Created by Molluscan Shellfish to Managed Species along the Atlantic Coast of the United States
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Habitat Management Series #8 document.
South Carolina’s Intertidal Oyster Survey and Reef Restoration ⁄ Enhancement Program: Using Novel Approaches
A document from SCDNR, NOAA, and USGS.
Beginning in the early 1980s, a multi-year, state-wide effort was undertaken to estimate the state’s oyster resources using hand-digitized maps derived from field surveys and manual aerial photograph interpretation of a large portion of the state’s harvestable resources. Approximately 900 hectares (or 2,000 acres) of intertidal oyster reefs (95% of the resource) were found growing along marsh shorelines, and in open areas, in the form of oyster flats. This extensive information was placed in a GIS system.
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Download "South Carolina Leverages New Aerial Imaging Technique to Map Oyster Beds" (PDF)
Download "Pilot Investigation of Remote Sensing for Intertidal Oyster Mapping in Coastal South Carolina: A Methods Comparison" (PDF)
Additional updates and specific information can also be found at the following SCDNR website: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/GIS/descoysterbed.html
Oyster Reef References
Crassostrea virginica only, reef ecology & related restoration efforts; boat wakes and related remote sensing; some disease covered. Revision date 11⁄2011.