Lowcountry Oyster Festival Helps Sustain Lowcountry Oyster Beds with Shell Recycling

Credit: Lowcountry Hospitality Association

On Sunday, January 29th, the Lowcountry Oyster Festival, the world’s largest oyster festival will serve up around 45,000 pounds of oysters and expose its roughly 8,000 annual attendees to the benefits of oyster recycling. Celebrating its 39th year, the event works with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Coastal Conservation Association of Charleston to recycle shells in local coastal waters, where they help rebuild fisheries, reefs, prevent soil erosion, and mitigate flood risk. The festival provides these organizations around 3 percent of the 43,000 bushels of oyster shells needed to reach sustainability goals of reseeding oyster beds and fisheries.