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Yvonne Geehreng, headed to the University of Miami to study marine biology, received the South Fork Sea Farmers Steward of the Marine Environment Scholarship.

News 12's Erin Colton visits South Fork Sea Farmers to see how the East End nonprofit is restoring local marine ecosystems.

Northforker profiles Bounty Uncharted, the Montauk ocean series from South Fork Sea Farmers co-founder Jeff Ragovin.

Shell Yeah! South Fork Sea Farmers expands restoration efforts with local partners

NOAA and our partners are working to restore oyster reef habitat in the Chesapeake Bay because oysters are an important part of the ecosystem. They grow in reefs that provide habitat for a number of Bay species. Oysters are filter feeders, so they clean the water as they eat. Oysters support not only the ecosystem, but also the economy. Areas with healthy oyster reefs are great for commercial and recreational fishing.

The Baltimore Oyster Partnership, a collaboration between the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), is working to grow 5 million oysters in the Baltimore Harbor by 2030.The Partnership aims to restore the ecosystem of the Harbor and the greater Chesapeake Bay by restoring depleted oyster populations. The project engages volunteers’ assistance in the installation and maintenance of 16 oyster gardens across the Baltimore Harbor. The gardens house over 1,000 cages of newly grown oyster larvae that are taken to a no-harvest sanctuary reef in the Patapsaco River.

East Hampton High School interns with South Fork Sea Farmers win approval for a fifth and sixth oyster reef in Three Mile Harbor.

Students, the town shellfish hatchery and South Fork Sea Farmers build Three Mile Harbor's first community oyster reef with shells donated by local restaurants.

The East Hampton Town Trustees heard and approved a request by South Fork Sea Farmers, a nonprofit educational arm of the town’s shellfish hatchery and its community oyster garden program, to implement a program aiming to establish eelgrass meadows in Accabonac Harbor.