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Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Laura Bowie

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8838
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
MASGP 09-011-01

Upcoming Events
Volunteers can learn to be oyster gardeners

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer with the Mobile Bay Oyster Gardening Program should attend one of two upcoming workshops. Program volunteers grow oysters in cages off wharves in “conditionally open” waters. The oysters later are planted on reefs.

A Baldwin County workshop will take place at 10 a.m., April 18, at the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors
Bureau in Orange Beach.

A Mobile County workshop will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 2, at the Auburn Shellfish Laboratory on Dauphin Island.

Call P.J. Waters at 251-438-5690 for more information or to reserve a seat.