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On Tuesday June 17, 2025 125 million oyster larvae were released into the Gulf on Shearwater Reef near Ocean Springs, MS. The larvae started their journey from Palacios Marine Agricultural Research (PMAR) Hatchery in Palacios, TX and flew to Gulfport, MS. PMAR had three hatchery experts who then drove the larvae to the boat launch […]
Callie Mae Sea Foundation spent the start of November filling more Intermas biodegradable shell bags on the Mississippi Coast! After such an amazing living shoreline project with C. Cenac & Co. LLC. and French Hermit Oyster Co. this past summer, we have been so fortunate to continue this strategic alliance. Together we created and filled […]
The Callie Mae Sea Foundation partnered with French Hermit Oysters, C. Cenac & Co., the University of Southern Mississippi, and many other community members to build a living shoreline on private property in Back Bay. WLOX and the Sun Herald were present for placement of the living shoreline, and the news story and newspaper article […]
Aloha! The Callie Mae Sea Foundation conducted a small-scale microplastics sampling study at six O’ahu beaches in April/May 2021, and we wanted to share some of our preliminary study results with you! The map below (Figure 1) shows our six sampling locations, which you can see are spread out along the coast of O’ahu. One […]
We have some exciting news here at the Callie Mae Sea Foundation: our lead scientist Dr. Schweiss recently published a chapter of her dissertation on oyster reef restoration. This publication focused on manipulative lab experiments run to better understand trophic (i.e. feeding) relationships on oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about […]