A string of disasters have decimated oyster populations, with far-reaching impacts on the health of the Mississippi Sound. The state’s yearslong efforts to restore the reefs have fallen short.
One-thousand acres of New Hampshire’s Great Bay were once covered by live oyster reefs. Today, because of pollution, disease, and harvest, 90 percent have disappeared. But the tidal estuary is now the site of a celebrated revival.
Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves back, one shell at a time.
