Billion Oyster Project’s Wallabout Nursery is a spawning sanctuary, where oysters spawned on Governors Island grow and breed, adding to the larvae in Upper New York Harbor and increasing the diversity of life in this concrete lined basin at the edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
YEAR INSTALLED
2016
NYC BOROUGH
Brooklyn
WATERWAY
Wallabout Channel
“I love Wallabout as a nursery site because it’s very easy for us to access and the oysters always grow well. Having this nursery site in a location that requires a quick boat ride is a great excuse to get students, volunteers and staff on the water working with oysters.”
— Rebecca Resner, Hatchery Manager
