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Worldwide Oyster Restoration Project Database
🚧 Under Construction 🚧Oyster reefs are among the most threatened marine habitats on Earth. Roughly 85% have disappeared in less than 150 years — since the late 1800s — and in more than a third of the bays studied they are now functionally extinct.1
Where we are
Why it happened
Why it matters: one adult oyster filters up to 50 gallons of water a day; reefs shelter fish and crabs and shield shorelines from storms.
🦪 The good news: restoration works — but it can’t do the job alone. Lasting recovery also means stopping the causes: ending destructive industrial dredging, cutting chemical pollution at its source and protecting the coasts reefs depend on. Harvesting done right isn’t the problem — as the old oystermen say, “the beds like to be worked.” Beds that are worked with care can be cultivated and helped to thrive. This project is dedicated to both.