On July 20-21, we completed construction of our 5-acre oyster restoration project in Great Bay! With the great work of Riverside and Pickering Marine contractors, we placed 500 cubic yards of seasoned clam shell on the bottom of the estuary in a shallow area off Nannie Island, adjacent to an existing healthy oyster reef in Newington, NH. Over 2 very full days, two barge loads full of shell were ferried from Portsmouth down to the project site, and then deposited in small piles across the project site using a crane and clam-shell bucket. Quite a construction effort, all for our largest single oyster restoration project to date! © The Nature Conservancy