The Bream Fishermen Association (BFA) and Pensacola Bay Oyster Company have partnered on the Project Oyster Pilot (POP) study to improve water quality throughout Pensacola and Perdido Bay. The study will examine the impact of hanging 75 oysters off a dock on the quality of surrounding water. An oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water per day.
Participants attended a POP workshop in December and received a short course on oysters, their care, life cycle, along information with information on the POP project will work. BFA Members evaluated the sites and collected water quality information, depth and habitat types from registered participants.
This weekend, the workshop participants who paid $50 for oyster kits can pick up their instructional booklet, a calendar and rain gauge for recording information, and an oyster cage along with 75 triploid baby oysters that will be counted, weighed and measured before deployment.
The kits can be picked up 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 12 at Miraflores Park, 1615 East LaRua St. For more information, visit BreamFishermen.org.