In an incredible moment for habitat restoration – we delivered our biggest single day yet this week when our volunteers deployed more than one million recycled oyster shells into Moreton Bay, Queensland. More than 200 members and supporters dedicated over 2,900 hours to collect, clean, and deploy in excess of 16.5 tonnes of oyster shells. Thank you.
Across three working bees, 28 rec fisher volunteers constructed 70 Robust Oyster Buckets (ROBs) and filled them with more than 1.1 tonnes of recycled oyster shell. They then helped to deploy them at strategic locations in the Port River estuary, dedicating more than 188 hours so far to delivering the project.
Shellfish reefs are complex, three-dimensional living structures, which provide food, shelter and protection for a range of marine species. For every hectare of oyster reef, each year, the reefs can filter 2.7 billion litres of seawater, remove 225 kilograms…
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