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Reef restoration projects aim to bolster Texas' record-low oyster population

The Nature Conservancy plans to use settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to construct new oyster reefs in Galveston and Copano bays.

Oyster shells along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.  An oyster restoration project is underway in Matagorda Bay.

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