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On a sunny day this fall, two Georgia Southern grad students stood waist-deep in the North Newport River near St. Catherine’s Island while their professor and a team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources used a winch to lower pallets full of oyster shells into the water.
The students guided the pallets into place on the muddy river bank. Those pallets, piled with shells, will provide a hard surface for baby oysters to latch onto.
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