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Bioengineered Oyster Reefs for Multiple Coastal Functions: Food, Protection, Habitat, Carbon Sequestration, Navigation, Economics. Tyler Ortego, MS PE ORA Engineering, LLC Steven Hall, PhD LSU Biological Engineering. ? ? ?. Discover the Keys to Inland Navigation’s
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Bioengineered Oyster Reefs for Multiple Coastal Functions: Food, Protection, Habitat, Carbon Sequestration, Navigation, Economics Tyler Ortego, MS PE ORA Engineering, LLC Steven Hall, PhD LSU Biological Engineering
? ? ? Discover the Keys to Inland Navigation’s Sustainable Future Around the World “of, relating to, or being a method of using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged”
Old School http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/prj/westbay/photos/Hydraulic-cutterhead-dredge.gif Do more with more
The Oyster • Reef habitat • Oyster brood stock • Recreational fishing • Water quality • Shoreline protection • Stabilize dredged material • Oyster harvest • Sequester carbon(?)
The Oyster • Reproductive rate • Free swimming larvae • Filter feeders • Calcium Carbonate Shell • Reef forming Berrigan et al. (1991)
Engineered Oyster Reefs http://www.oyster-restoration.org/florida07/presentations/Jason%20Kirkpatrick.pdf?PHPSESSID=5ffcd6317acd211e9ad7f2014a07a23d