Artificial Reef Construction: Building condos for oysters

Date

1997

Authors

Baker, William B.

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Publisher

Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

Abstract

Houston Lighting & Power Company, The Port of Houston Authority, and the National Marine Fisheries Service jointly sponsored a Galveston Bay National Estuary Program Action Plan Demonstration Project to construct a 5-acre oyster reef in Galveston Bay utilizing 12,100 cubic yards of coal combustion byproduct pellets in the spring of 1993. The primary objective of the product was to demonstrate that a relatively large oyster reef constructed with coal combustion product in Galveston Bay could be both biologically successful and cost effective, relative to natural shell.

Description

pgs. 67-76

Keywords

oyster reefs, artificial reefs, habitat restoration, coal combustion byproduct pellets (CCB)

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