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3rd Annual Oyster Fling Was a Success
Boy Scouts Maintaining FLUPSY at Windswept Marina
The Boy Scouts are hard at work maintaining our FLUPSY over at Windswept Marina. Feel free to go on down and take a look anytime.
Update on Floating Upweller System
Recently the Moriches Bay Project team gathered at Windswept Marina in East Moriches, to work on our F.L.U.P.S.Y. (Floating Upweller System).
Photos from our Eelgrass Event
Check out the pictures from our Saturday June 2017 Eelgrass event.
Ray Dowd Oyster Farming Breakfast Photos
See some of the photos from our fun and educational breakfast on Oyster Farming
Yale Day of Service
Our Yale Day of Service event on May 13th was a great success! Despite the rainy weather, we had an excellent turnout. Attendees built oyster cages and made eelgrass disks while learning about all of MBP's efforts! We want to thank everyone for coming out to learn...
It’s Horseshow Crab Season
Have you noticed when walking along the beach there are more horseshoe crabs? This is spawning season. Pikes Beach is one of the few areas where Horseshoe crabs migrate to spawn. If you are interested in helping Cornell in their annual survey of spawning...
Oyster Beds Are Doing Great
The Moriches Bay Project team and Greg Rivera from Cornell Cooperative Extension waited for the tide to be just right on a beautiful sunny morning recently to take a boat out to visit two of our oyster beds and the results were... great! We saw quite a bit of growth...
New Partnership with Rebecca Dolber | R.E.D.
As a kid, Moriches Bay was my playground. My parents didn't have a boat, but at the end of our street, we had a park where we could throw down a towel, sunbathe and go fishing. My siblings and I spent many summer afternoons racing hermit crabs and lowering chicken...