Helping bays become ‘a better spot’ for oysters – and farmers
The sun sparkles on the surface of Great Bay, the silt suspended in the murky water from the previous day’s rainfall. But from her spot on the dock, Brianna Group doesn’t notice. Head tilted down, hands in rubber work gloves, she meticulously counts baby oysters. She and her team of conservationists don’t have a moment to waste. The oyster farmers are coming.
“This one has seven,” says Ms. Group, a program manager for The Nature Conservancy in Great Bay, a tidal estuary close to New Hampshire’s coastal border with Maine. She holds up a shell with baby oysters, known
