Oyster Shell

Thanks to Adam Nathan, agribusiness student at Mississippi State University, for helping me compile this list! Thanks also to Sofia Giordano (CRCL) and Jack Isaacs (LDWF) for providing information! 

• Alabama Coastal Foundation
• Billion Oyster Project (New York Harbor)
• CCA of New Hampshire Oyster Restoration Program
• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
• C.O.R.E. (Community Oyster Restoration Effort) (Long Island, NY)
• City Island Oyster Reef Shell Collection (New York)
• City of Stuart's Shell Recycling Program (Florida)
• Don't Chuck Your Shucks (Delaware)
• FL.O.O.R. (Florida Oceanographic Oyster Restoration)  
• Galveston Bay Foundation
• G.E.O.R.G.I.A. (Generating Enhanced Oyster Reefs in Georgia’s Inshore Areas)
• Half Shells for Habitat (Long Island, NY)
• Keep Pensacola Beautiful (Florida)
• Long Beach Island / Jetty (New Jersey)
• Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group (Massachusetts)
• Massachusetts Oyster Shell Recycling Programs
• Mississippi Gulf Coast Oyster Shell Recovery Program
• No Shell Left Behind (Franklin County, FL)
• North Carolina Coastal Federation
• Offer Your Shell To Enhance Restoration (O.Y.S.T.E.R) (Santa Rosa County, FL)
• Oyster Recovery Partnership (Maryland)
• Partnership for the Delaware Estuary
• Rink 2 Reef (using hockey sticks!, Florida Gulf Coast University)
• Save Oyster Shell (S.O.S.) (Virginia)
• Save Oyster Shells (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
• Shuck and Share (Florida Atlantic Coast)
• Shuck It, Don't Chuck It (New Jersey)
• Sink Your Shucks (Corpus Christi, TX)
• South Carolina Oyster Recycling and Enhancement (SCORE)
• South Carolina Oyster Shell Recycling Program
• The Nature Conservancy (Mississippi)
• The Nature Conservancy (Rhode Island)
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Wellfleet SPAT (Massachusetts)
• Wild Oyster Project (San Francisco, CA)

• What is oyster shell recycling? (University of Florida, 2021)
• Shell Bank: An oyster shell reclamation, storage and recycling program for oyster reef restoration (Corpus Christi, TX, 2011)
• UNC-EFC Memo on North Carolina's Oyster Shell Recycling Bill (2005) 
• Louisiana's Oyster Shell Recovery Pilot Project (2004)

• An Economic Baseline and Characterization of U.S. Gulf of Mexico Seafood Processors (2014) 

• Florida (50% of shell remains property of the state)
• Maryland (shell recycling tax credits)
• New York (bill introduced to establish shell recycling tax credit)
• North Carolina (oyster shell banned from landfills)
• Texas (requires 30% of shell goes back in the water)

• Alternative Substrates Used for Oyster Reef Restoration: A Review (2020)
• Oyster reef restoration: effect of alternative substrates on oyster recruitment and nekton habitat use (2015)
• The recycling of oyster shells: An environmental analysis using Life Cycle Assessment (2012)
• Oyster Shell Dissolution Rates in Estuarine Waters: Effects of pH and Shell Legacy (2011)
• Is Oyster Shell a Sustainable Estuarine Resource? (2007)
• How long does oyster shell last on an oyster reef? (2006) 
• Cultch material experiment in Chapter 2-6, Louisiana's Oyster Shell Recovery Pilot Project (2004)