Oyster Restoration and Management in Coastal North Carolina
Abstract
The once strong North Carolina oyster fishery has fallen on hard times over the last
few decades due to overfishing, habitat
loss, disease, and pollution. Currently, there are many actions being taken in an
effort to reverse this downward trend. The
North Carolina Coastal Federation has developed the “Oyster Action Plan,” a coast-wide
effort involving many different state,
federal, non-profit, and educational organizations to restore oysters and oyster habitat.
As part of this effort, I worked with
many of these organizations to determine and map priority areas for oyster habitat
restoration along the coast. Additionally, as
part of the current effort in North Carolina to create an oyster gardening program,
I worked with people from other states who
have existing oyster gardening programs to develop a series of recommendations for
how to best go about constructing our
program. This report will give the reader a background on oyster biology and ecology,
as well as the history and current status
of the fishery in North Carolina. Additionally, it will present my efforts within
the oyster action plan, and make some general
conclusions and recommendations about how to proceed in the future. The Oyster Action
Plan is an ongoing process that will
continue for years to come, and will hopefully be successful at returning large populations
of oysters to our coast.
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Haines, Andrew C. (2004). Oyster Restoration and Management in Coastal North Carolina. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/240.Collections
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