11.2 million juvenile oysters have been added in the past six months to a section of the Hudson River off the coast of lower Manhattan, where they are helping to filter the water and creating habitats for other marine life.
Big, discovered under Pier 40 three years ago, is believed to be the largest oyster found in New York in over a century, Oct. 22, 2021.
It may be another 100 years before anyone can safely eat an oyster from the waters, said Carrie Roble, vice president for estuary and education at the Hudson River Park Trust’s River Project, a marine biology monitoring station on Pier 40, near West Houston Street. Roble noted that the estuary is a crucial incubator for regional waterways and that many types of fish migrate through the area or spawn there. Striped bass caught in Connecticut or New Jersey likely spent time in the Hudson when they were young.
“Nobody’s really done this before,” Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of design and construction for Hudson River Park, said in an interview last month as workers prepared to lower more of the oyster homes into the water. “It’s exciting. I hope we get to do it again.” Riverkeeper, a nonprofit that has fought to restore the Hudson since the 1960s, also helped conceive the project.
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