Gulf Guardian Award Winners 2004
Civic/Nonprofit Organization - 1st Place
Oyster Gardening - Kim Hamilton, project leader of the
Shellfish Restoration Project on
Dauphin Island, Alabama, shows some of the thousands of oysters raised
as part of the project. Volunteers participated by growing oysters from
spat to maturity in cages extended from backyard piers all along Mississippi
Sound. Project leaders collected the mature oysters and deposited them
at specific sites in the sound to help restore historic oyster beds.
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Photo by Carrie Robertson
Contact info: - carrie@gulfmex.org,
361-775-1610