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Winter 2020 Newsletter

October 2020 BIG news!

Our first 60,000 native oysters are now on the seabed in Loch Craignish, thanks to lots of brilliant (socially distanced) volunteers. At ...

mid-October 2020

Our 60,000 native oysters in our floating nursery have grown incredibly well. We have seen NO mortality, and most of them have trebled in...

September 2020

Members of the Craignish community have been surveying the seabed in preparation for putting down our first 60,000 juvenile native oyster...

August 2020

It’s the end of July, and a gorgeous morning in Argyll and a crowd of us, of all ages, are gathered around polystyrene boxes on the beach...

June 2020

Our first five oyster hoisters with nearly three hundred oysters have been suspended off the pontoons at the Ardfern Yacht Centre! Each h...

May 2020

Despite Covid19, we’re pulling out all the stops to get the project up and running in the summer. Currently, we are sourcing equipment a...

April 2020

In late April, we took a peek at our pilot project native oysters growing in a gabion cage on the seabed off Eilean Buidhe to see how the...

March 2020

One of the challenges of the restoration project, and a subject for more research, is where to place the juvenile oysters on the seabed t...

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