Oyster Restoration Success in Virginia

Check out this video and story on an oyster restoration success in the Virginia River.

They are capitalizing on an abundance of free-floating young oysters in the area- swim for two weeks and then settle on to hard surfaces. A luxury we don't yet have. They also used a large amount of fossil shell.

Here is the link to video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXaSjzUGcU

Here is the link to a NYTimes article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04oyster.html?ref=science&pagewanted=print

Importantly the area is closed to harvesting.