2021-09-13 GC Agenda - Item 11 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Oyster Project Annual Report 2

Oyster Gardening Project
TNC partnered with NICA to facilitate oyster gardening in Noosa. Oyster gardening
is an activity whereby locals grow out local oysters, provide by the project, in
baskets, or ‘oyster gardens’ suspended from jetties. The volunteer gardeners care
for the gardens, keep citizen science records of their experience and become better
educated about oysters and oyster restoration in the process. Once the juvenile
oysters are large enough to survive on their own, they are carefully placed onto the
oyster reef patches in the project’s restoration sites. These oysters help kick start
ecosystem recovery.




Figure 4a, b and c. TNC and NICA launch Oyster Gardening for Noosa (top left). NICA Oyster Project Coordinator,
Alex Western & Secretary, Richard Howard, inspect the oyster shells at the Doonan shell recycling site. Alex and
Richard meet with Michael McIntyre, project partner and official restaurant shell collector from Resource Recovery
Australia. Courtesy of Sharon Wright & Helen Bowyer.




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