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Articles Tagged "oyster beds"

  • Fri., July 20, 2012 12:00pm
    A team of Alabama-based scientists says, there's a limit to how much pollution oysters can clean up. Researchers with Auburn University and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab spent ten years looking into how much nitrogen an oyster removes from water daily as it pumps it through its body. Nitrogen fuels algae growth and can lead to dead zones in the waters where oysters live.
  • Fri., April 20, 2012 6:41am
    The Department of Natural Resources started using a helicopter Thursday to lower pallets of oyster shells in Glynn County tidal creeks that once teemed with the bivalve mollusks. The recycled oyster shells will become a foundation where oyster larvae can attach themselves and form living reefs.