Community Oyster Gardening

New York

• Billion Oyster Project (New York Harbor School Foundation, New York Harbor)

• Coastal Steward Long Island (Port Jefferson and Mt Sinai harbors, NY)

• Friends of Bellport Bay (Bellport, NY)

• Great South Bay Shellfish Gardening Program (Great Atlantic Shellfish Farms, East Islip, NY)

• Moriches Bay Project Shellfish Restoration (Moriches Bay Project, East Moriches, NY)

• Save the Great South Bay

• Seatuck - Half Shells for Habitat - oyster shell recover

• Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program (Shinnecock Bay, Southampton, NY)

• Suffolk County Project in Aquaculture Training (SPAT) (Cornell Cooperative Extension, Southold, NY)

• Town Shellfish Enhancement Programs
• Town of Oyster Bay at the Western Waterfront in cooperation with the North Oyster Bay Baymen's Association, new shellfish hatchery

• Town of Huntington at Gold Star Battalion Beach in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension - currently no web site

• Town of Hempstead - shellfish hatchery

• Town of Islip - shellfish hatchery

• Town of East Hampton
• East Hampton Shellfish Education and Enhancement Directive (EHSEED) Oyster Gardening Program

 

New Jersey

• Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Project (ReClam the Bay, Barnegat, NJ)

 

Rhode Island

• Roger Williams Applied Shellfish Farming for the Public (Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI)

 

Delaware

• Delaware Center for Inland Bays

 

 

Chesapeake Bay

 Maryland

• Maryland Oyster Gardening Program (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
• About Maryland's Program (You Tube Video link)

• Oyster Recovery Partnership

• Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland

• Magothy River Association

• Project Oyster West River (POWeR)

• Severn River Association

• Southern Maryland Oyster Cultivation Society

• ShoreRivers

 

Virginia

• Virginia Oyster Restoration Center (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, VIMS, Gloucester Point, VA)

• Virginia Oyster Gardening Guide (PDF - Virginia Coastal Zone Management)

• Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association

 

South Carolina

• South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement (SCORE) Program (South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

 

Florida

• Restore Our Shores
  

 

Spat on shell and oyster larvae

• Horn Point Oyster Hatchery - University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, largest hatchery on the east coast