The nursery at SUNY Maritime College is an exciting partnership. The college graciously hosts and supports the maintenance of dozens of oyster trays beneath their pier, providing thriving habitat below.

YEAR INSTALLED

2019

NYC BOROUGH

Bronx

WATERWAY

East River

FUNDING

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)

past & current PARTNERS


SUNY Maritime College

PRESS COVERAGE

SUNY Maritime College

The SUNY Maritime College oyster nursery is a unique site. Not only does it have Empire State VI, a 565-foot training vessel, sitting right in front of the nursery allowing us to admire it while we work, but it also has a long row of 79 super tray stacks filled with oysters! In 2019, we installed 1.7 million spat-on-shell at this site and we are incredibly excited to see how well our oysters thrive here and to develop an even closer relationship with SUNY Maritime College.

— Tatiana Castro, Restoration Field Coordinator