The Head of Bay project was a collaboration led by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to design, install, maintain, and monitor an oyster demonstration project.

The project is located in the eastern end of Jamaica Bay – Head of Bay — in Nassau and Queens County in the Town of Hempstead. The success of oyster populations recovering in Jamaica Bay has been historically limited by the lack of substrate and reproducing adult oysters, which is what Billion Oyster Project and our partners are actively working to provide moving forward.

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