Bioengineered Oyster Reefs for Multiple Coastal Functions: Food ...

Bioengineered Oyster Reefs for Multiple Coastal Functions: Food, Protection, Habitat, Carbon Sequestration, Navigation, Economics Tyler Ortego, MS PE ORA Engineering, LLC Steven Hall, PhD LSU Biological Engineering

Discover the Keys to Inland Navigation’s Sustainable Future Around the World “of, relating to, or being a method of using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged”

Do more with less

Old School

http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/prj/westbay/photos/Hydraulic-cutterhead-dredge.gif

Do more with more

Do more with less

The Oyster

The Oyster • • • • • • • •

Reef habitat Oyster brood stock Recreational fishing Water quality Shoreline protection Stabilize dredged material Oyster harvest Sequester carbon(?)

The Oyster • • •

Reproductive rate Free swimming larvae Filter feeders

• •

Berrigan et al. (1991)

Calcium Carbonate Shell Reef forming

Engineered Oyster Reefs

Engineered Oyster Reefs

Engineered Oyster Reefs

Engineered Oyster Reefs

Engineered Oyster Reefs

http://www.oysterrestoration.org/florida07/presentations/Jason %20Kirkpatrick.pdf?PHPSESSID=5ffcd6317acd 211e9ad7f2014a07a23d

How to choose?

Define success

Use the right tools for the job

Do more with less

Future work

Future work