Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Louisiana
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Louisiana Project

Evaluation of created shore structures in Vermilion Bay

January 2010 - December 2012

Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • The Nature Conservancy
Oysterkrete rings placed in Vermilion Bay, LA to examine the use of bio-engineered rings to establish a living shoreline. Graduate student Steve Beck examines the rings.

This project examines oyster reef sustainability, provision of critical nekton habitat and impacts of a created oyster reef on eroding shoreline in Vermilion Bay, LA.