Oyster Reef Restoration

Team members from Billion Oyster Project prepare cages filled with oyster spat on shell at a new oyster nursery in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Oyster shells collected by Billion Oyster Project being used to restore oyster reefs in New York City.

Tanasia Swift, Community Reefs Regional Manager at Billion Oyster Project stands on oyster shell piles on Governors Island in New York harbor.

Oyster shells collected at more than 75 restaurants throughout New York City are used by Billion Oyster Project to restore oyster reefs to New York harbor as one method of reducing the destructive impacts of storm surge due to climate change.

Oyster cages used for a Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in New York harbor are unloaded from a truck at Red Hook Terminal in Brooklyn.

Crews load oyster gabions into shipping containers at Red Hook Terminal for transport up the East River in New York City to a Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in Soundview.

Oyster cages with live oysters loaded into shipping containers are being placed in the East River as part of a Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in the Bronx.

A crew lowers oyster cages filled with live oysters into the East River in New York City as part of a Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in the Bronx.

Billion Oyster Project collects oyster shells from NYC restaurants to restore oyster reefs in New York harbor as one way of mitigating the impacts of storm surge due to the climate crisis.

Concrete structures being used to restore wild oyster habitat in the Hudson River near the Mario Cuomo Bridge.

Staff scientist at Billion Oyster Project collects and records data from a wild oyster reef restoration project on the Hudson River.

Billion Oyster Project Staff Scientist Zosia Baumann and Restoration Field Coordinator Tatiana Castro aboard a vessel on the Hudson River measure and record data on a wild oyster reef restoration project near the Mario Cuomo Bridge.

Danielle Bissett, Assistant Director of Restoration at Billion Oyster Project, transfers oyster shells at Red Hook Terminal as part of their effort to restore oyster reefs in New York harbor as one method of mitigating the impacts of storm surge due to climate change.

Loose oyster shells being loaded into shipping containers at Red Hook Terminal for transport up the East River in New York City to the Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in Soundview.

Billion Oyster Project Executive Director Pete Malinowski loads loose oyster shells into shipping containers at Red Hook Terminal for transport up the East River in New York City to a Billion Oyster Project oyster reef restoration in Soundview.