# New Jersey Seeks Volunteers for Oyster Reef Restoration **URL:** \ **Category:** New Jersey Fishing News\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/new-jersey-seeks-volunteers-for-oyster-reef-restoration/229297 "2013-12-10T12:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FishNews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FishNews](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/FishNews)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/new-jersey-seeks-volunteers-for-oyster-reef-restoration/229297/1 "2013-12-10T12:13:03Z")
Dear Friends, We are recruiting volunteers for upcoming Project PORTS oyster restoration activities. Project P.O.R.T.S. - Promoting Oyster Restoration Through Schools - is an education and community-based oyster restoration program that helps revitalize Delaware Bay oyster populations and the important fish habitat their reefs provide. The oyster is a keystone species in the bay: improving water quality and providing food, and habitat to countless organisms. For the 7th straight year, students throughout South Jersey made shell-filled mesh bags as part of Project PORTS. The shell bags serve as a settlement surface for young oysters (spat) when the bay’s oyster population spawns this summer. Later in the season, we will transplant the spat-on-shell to a restoration site in the bay. We need your help deploying the shell bags into the bay! We have 2 tasks on 2 separate days: 1. Wed, 6/19 at 10am Port Norris/Bivalve, Cumberland County, NJ Loading the 10-lb. shell bags onto a barge in NOTE: This activity requires upper body strength (Rain date: Fri, 6/21 at 10am) 1. Sat 6/22 at 12:30pm Green Creek, Cape May County, NJ Arranging the bags on the sand flats during low tide. NOTE: Be prepared to get a little wet and muddy; closed-toed shoes required; long pants are recommended (Rain date: Sun, 6/23 at 1:30pm) If you can help on any or all of these days, please contact: Shane Godshall at 856-825-2174 or [shane@littoralsociety.org](mailto:shane@littoralsociety.org) or Lisa Calvo at 609-440-4560 or calvo@hsrl.rutgers.edu. Thank you for your interest in helping to restore oysters and the critical habitat they provide in Delaware Bay! Project PORTS 2013 is funded by: The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation NJ Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership The National Partnership between NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program and Restore America’s Estuaries DuPont Clear into the Future Conservation Resources Inc. and the membership of the American Littoral Society.