The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s Office of Restoration recently constructed a 90-acre subtidal reef to provide habitat for oysters and other species. The project is a component of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Early Restoration Phase IV Restoring Living Shorelines and Reefs in Mississippi Estuaries Project following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
The subtidal reef will provide habitat for oysters and other bi-valves as well as habitat for a community of other species such as tunicates, fish, crabs, worms, bryozoans, and barnacles.
Read more about Mississippi’s restoration efforts here.
