NFWF Grant Profile

Conduct studies of offshore breakwaters in the Choptank River and complete engineered designs incorporating original structures with oyster castles and oyster spat on identified sites, including Bill Burton Fishing Piers State Park and Horne Bay along Horn Point Laboratory’s campus. Project will develop oyster retrofit designs that will create complex fish and shellfish habitat and provide enhanced, measurable nutrient and sediment reduction benefits when implemented.