YOUR help is needed in this crucial oyster recycling event!
In an effort to reach CCA SC Topwater Action Campaign’s goal of recycling 10,000 bushels of oyster shells by March, 2012 we need you! This event is the largest single contributor to our annual oyster recycling efforts, producing approx. 1,400 bushels of shell.
Volunteers are needed all day and will be utilized in the separation and collection of oyster shells. Free Admission into the festival is part of the deal.
The enhancement of marine habitat along our enviable coast is imperative to the future of our marine resources; and to YOUR continued good fishing! Please consider giving one day to a sport and a resource that provides you and your friends and family with so much benefit.
To participate, simply email or contact
Gary Keisler
Topwater Action Volunteer Cooridinator
(843) 696-6274 gkeisler@homesc.com
YOUR help is needed
for this crucial oyster-recycling event!
In an effort to reach CCA SC Topwater Action Campaign’s goal of recycling 10,000 bushels of oyster shells by March, 2012 we need you! This event is the largest single contributor to our annual oyster recycling efforts, producing approx. 1,400 bushels of shell.
Volunteers are needed all day and will be utilized in the separation and collection of oyster shells.
Free Admission into the festival is part of the deal.
The enhancement of marine habitat along our enviable coast is imperative to the future of our marine resources; and to YOUR continued good fishing! Please consider giving one day to a sport and a resource that provides you and your friends and family with so much benefit.
Guy Harvey Presenting $12,000 Check to CCA South Carolina Top Water Action Program
(Pictured from left to right) Scott Whitaker, Gary Keisler, Guy Harvey
Palmetto Moon, LLC and Guy Harvey team with CCASC on funding habitat program
Columbia, S.C. – Charleston based Palmetto Moon, LLC, American Fishing Tackle Company (AFTCO) and world-renowned fishing icon Guy Harvey have teamed with CCA SC on a South Carolina themed Guy Harvey t-shirt available exclusively at the seven Palmetto Moon locations across the state. Beginning May 1st, a significant portion of the sale of each specially designed t-shirt will go to CCA SC’s Topwater Action Campaign (TWA), dedicated to marine habitat improvement in South Carolina.
“Palmetto Moon is pleased to be involved with the largest grassroots marine conservation organization in the state. CCA’s work for the last 25 years continues to positively impact our quality of life in South Carolina,” said Whitney Holzer of Palmetto Moon. “This t-shirt program is our way of participating in those efforts and we are honored to do so.”
Created in 2008, the Topwater Action Campaign was modeled on the adopt-a-highway program as a way to restore coastal creeks. Since then, TWA has grown tremendously in the scope and scale of its habitat projects. Under the slogan, “Habitat today means fish for tomorrow,” this building conservation program is now a force for improving South Carolina’s marine resources and raising awareness. Water quality, oyster shell recycling, inshore and offshore reef enhancement, as well as education are all aspects of the TWA today.
“Guy Harvey is a passionate advocate for the world’s marine resources,” said Steve Stock, president Guy Harvey Inc. “We believe the funds generated through the sale of Guy Harvey’s custom design PM t-shirt will be significant for the Topwater Action Campaign and we support both Palmetto Moon and CCA SC in their conservation efforts.”
“We are very appreciative and honored that these three successful and recognizable companies recognize CCA SC’s habitat program as worthy of their time and involvement,” said Gary Keisler, CCA SC Topwater Action Campaign Coordinator. “With partners like these, we can enhance and restore areas today that will mean more habitat, more fish, and better angling opportunities for the future.”
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CCA Oyster Recovery Team collects more than 35 tons of shell for habitat Complete story here
Columbia, S.C. – For the fourth year in a row, the “CCA Oyster Recovery Team” sporting international orange t-shirts and vests, worked overtime to reclaim shells left over from the 28th Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival at Boone Hall Plantation. A team of 44 CCA South Carolina members, volunteers, and partners gathered up almost 75,000 pounds of oyster shell last weekend that might otherwise have gone straight to a landfill. Thanks to their hard work, those shells are headed instead right back into the marshes and estuaries to create new marine habitat along the coast of South Carolina.
“This is not easy work, but it is at the very heart of conservation. This effort has a direct and tangible impact on the quality of our fisheries, and CCA members understand that link,” said Gary Keisler, CCA SC Topwater Action Campaign Coordinator. “We are grateful to the festival promoters, vendors, and attendees, for taking the time to understand what these simple oyster shells mean to our state’s marine resources.”
Each year, tens of thousands of bushels of oysters are harvested in South Carolina. In addition to being delicious, they are a vitally important species for our marine ecosystem as one mature oyster is capable of filtering up to 50 gallons of water per day. Usually found in clusters along the South Atlantic coast, oyster reefs provide habitat for more than 70 species of fish, shrimp, crabs, and other marine animals. The reefs also act as a natural barrier to habitat erosion along the many waterways of the Palmetto State.
However, many factors have combined over the past several decades to create a shortage of oyster shell for habitat purposes and shell has had to be purchased to supplement the state’s stock of shells. The shortages have limited the amount of habitat restoration work that the state is able to undertake. After identifying the problem, CCA South Carolina worked to be a part of a two-pronged solution. As a part of the Topwater Action Campaign, purchased shell was donated to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, but greater returns were soon realized simply by raising the public’s awareness of the importance of recycling shell for habitat.
“People want to do the right thing,” said Michael Smith, CCA SC State Chairman. “We just needed to make people aware how valuable all the shell that was going into dumpsters behind restaurants and at oyster festivals is to the future of our marine resources. We have some great volunteers who have gone out and spread the word, and the result this weekend is about 1,450 bushels of shell that will soon be at the heart of a reef attracting trout and redfish.”
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CCA South Carolina is proud to be celebrating 25 years as a steward of the state’s marine resources.
YOUR help is needed in this crucial oyster recycling event!
In an effort to reach CCA SC Topwater Action Campaign’s goal of recycling 8,000 bushels of oyster shells by March, 2011 we need you! This event is the largest single contributor to our annual oyster recycling efforts, producing approx. 1,400 bushels of shell.
Volunteers are needed all day and will be utilized in the separation and collection of oyster shells.
Free Admission into the festival is part of the deal.
The enhancement of marine habitat along our enviable coast is imperative to the future of our marine resources; and to YOUR continued good fishing! Please consider giving one day to a sport and a resource that provides you and your friends and family with so much benefit.
To particpate, simply reply to this email or contact
Gary Keisler
Topwater Action Volunteer Cooridinator
(843) 696-6274 gkeisler@homesc.com
