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Take a look at some pictures from our oyster farms at 906 Dune Road and Westhampton Dunes Overlook. We're getting ready for the winter.  Thanks so to Cornell for giving our oysters a home this winter.

On Friday, October 28th, the Moriches Bay Project, along with Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine, Town of Brookhaven Councilman Dan Panico, Vito Minei and Kim Tetrault of Cornell Cooperative Extension, proudly commemorated the...

Take a look at some of the pictures from the Kiwanis Oyster fest 2016. Even in the rain it was a lot of fun. For all who did not get to participate in our oyster shucking contest, there is always next year! So practice! A very special thank you...

The Moriches Bay Project wants to thank all our sponsors and the WHBPAC, especially Douglas Elliman, for their generous support in making this movie event come to life on the big screen. In addition we are so grateful to our wonderful experts,...

Take a look at some of the pictures from our September eelgrass project.

If you would like to have us attend your school and talk about the conditions in our Bay, teach your students how to be bay stewards and to have your students learn how to build an oyster cage in our hands-on demonstration, please email us at...

The Moriches Bay Project has added 85,000 oysters and spat on shell to our oyster bed this month. Greg Rivara led the team which consisted of Mike Patricio and Jeff Chagnon from CCE along with young MBP volunteer Ava Prime. We all set out on August 12th to...

What a community can do when they work together! We put 500,000 clams in the Bay!! The Moriches Bay Project is proud to announce that Kim Tetraultfrom the Cornell SPAT program has constructed a 10 barrel floating upweller system (FLUPSY). The...

Victoria Dambrosia, Moriches Bay Project Director of our M.B.O.S. along with Chole Rouhandeh and Elizabeth Scianno have just installed our third M.B.O.S at the Quogue Dock. Establishing a water monitoring network in Moriches Bay is critical to...

The Moriches Yacht Club is working hard to keep our oyster farm in good shape. The oysters look good and are growing. They look like they can be split in about a week. Lots of seaweed on the cages and floats. Overall the oysters look awesome....

The Moriches Bay Project and Kim Tetrault from CCE, along with your help, has successfully set up our oyster farm at 906 Dune Road. We have increased this farm size from 5000 oysters to 10,000 oysters. Take a look at some pictures below....

These events have been funded by Long Island Community Foundation. The Moriches Bay Project thanks them for their support.

MBP is very happy to announce a special partnership with Proud Pour, makers of “The Oyster” – a sustainable Sauvignon Blanc that is the official wine of this year’s Oyster Fling. When you buy “The Oyster” in the East End (locations at proudpour.com) the sales will...

Thanks to all the volunteers who got up early with us on Sunday, June 12th. What an amazing morning it was! Stephan, Amanda, and Dwight lead the group out to the Bay where over the course of several hours we collected approximately 5,000...

We have really exciting news from the Moriches Bay Project. We installed our first real-time data equipment: Moriches Bay Project Observation System (M.B.O.S.). This system will monitor water quality in our bay. In 2017 we added two more sites...