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Oyster Restoration Research & Reports
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 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.
More information, including a fact sheet and some distribution maps, can be found here.
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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.
Oyster Reef References
Crassostrea virginica only, reef ecology & related restoration efforts; boat wakes and related remote sensing; some disease covered. Revision date 6 ⁄ 2008.