Stewardship Session: Oyster Reef Deployment @ Tiana Bayside

Funding for this workshop has been provided by the Town of Southampton Community Preservation Fund.

Help CCE Marine's Aquaculture Team restore Long Island’s oyster reef habitats! Participants will learn about the importance of oysters in filtering bay water, providing shelter and food for marine life, and preventing erosion. Then get involved in hands-on stewardship by helping to deploy spat-on-shell oysters that will continue to grow into an oyster reef off Tiana Bayside Facility.

The event will be held outside onshore at Tiana Bayside Facility, Hampton Bays.

Be prepared to get dirty/wet. Work gloves are recommended. There are some tasks on shore as well as assistance wading into the water. Please bring waders or water shoes if you will be helping with reef planting.

Ages 13 and up welcome.

This FREE Stewardship Session is made possible by contributions to our Stewardship Program. We encourage all participants to become an official 2024 Back to the Bays Steward. To learn more about the program and register, visit backtothebays.org/stewardship.

You may also register as a Steward as an ADD-ON during registration here on eventbrite.

Host or Publisher Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program