Online Houston Monthly Meeting: Galveston Bay Oyster Reef Restoration Efforts

This meeting will be conducted using Zoom. Everyone is welcome.
7:15 - 7:30 pm: Time for log in, announcements, meet & greet.
Featured program presentation starts at 7:30 pm

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SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING:
Galveston Bay Oyster Reef Restoration Efforts

On September 9, join Bill Rodney, Coastal Ecologist at the Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept. Coastal Fisheries Division, as he discusses the Galveston Bay oyster reef restoration projects undertaken in recent years. The oyster reefs in the Bay are subject to a variety of stressors, and were greatly impacted by sediment deposits from Hurricane Ike, and then by massive freshwater inflows from Hurricane Harvey which decreased the salinity of the Bay.

A good summary document about Galveston Bay Oyster Reefs:
https://www.galvbaydata.org/www.galvbaydata.org/Habitat/OysterReefs/tabid/836/Default.html

Here is is a great video about the ecology and ecosystem importance of oyster reefs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3yjCplc44

40 acres of new oyster habitat created in first dual sanctuary and commercial harvest reef of its kind in Galveston Bay:
https://galvbay.org/40-acres-of-new-oyster-habitat-created-in-first-dual-sanctuary-and-commercial-harvest-reef-of-its-kind-in-galveston-bay/

TPWD Oyster Restoration in Galveston Bay, 2017 article:
https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20171009a

Shellfish harvesting map:
https://dshs.texas.gov/seafood/MapsPDF/ShellfishClassificationMaps/Galveston-2020.pdf