Our Quogue Junior Ambassadors came out to help us deploy the first round of summer 2025 spat-on-shell oysters in our Quogue Oyster Reef (established summer 2024).

Kim and Kate head out to monitor our Quogue Oyster Reef, collect scientific data, and clean the spat-on-shell oysters growing in our restoration raft. It may have been a rainy day for our dedicated staff, but not for the oysters. The reef is absolutely thriving!

Checking on last year’s Sag Harbor oyster reef planting off Steinbeck Park, and bolstering the reef with another 100K spat-on-shell oysters!

Installing Oyster Restoration Raft in the waters of our Quogue Stewardship Site. Spat-on-shell oysters will improve water quality as they filter feed and grow, and eventually be planted in Quogue Village waters to bolster our newly restored oyster reef!

Read our 2024 Back to the Bays Impact Report for a full review of the our 2024 projects and progress.

Back to the Bays is thrilled to share the success of our recent art and awareness event, This is Seaweed, hosted at Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton. The opening reception on July 19th was a remarkable evening, with a tremendous turnout and an incredible show of support for our Back to the Bays Seaweed Initiative.

Thanks to funding by East Hampton’s Community Preservation Fund, CCE Marine Program has been working in many waterbodies within East Hampton to identify where the highest levels of groundwater nutrients enter the water, with the goal of mitigating algae blooms and impoving water quality.

With spring’s arrival, Back to the Bays team members and volunteers gathered to make SEAd bombs to encourage biodiversity on Long Island. Join us this Earth Day, on April 22, to make and launch SEAd bombs, learn about Blue Carbon, garden, and explore the marsh with our habitat specialists!

CCE Marine’s Aquaculture team members attended the Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo (NACE) and the Milford Aquaculture Seminar (MAS) in Rhode Island.

Read our 2023 Back to the Bays Impact Report for a review of our restoration and education initiatives throughout the East End of Long island.

Last Friday, December 15th we celebrated the release of our special beer collaboration with Kidd Squid Brewing Co. at their brewery in Sag Harbor. Before the event was even over, every last case, can, and keg was gone! We are so grateful for the overwhelming support of the Sag Harbor community and everyone who purchased the special Hazy IPA (produced with all NY sourced grain!), dubbed the “Brew for the Bay Sag Harbor”.

Learn what it’s like to attend a Marine Meadows eelgrass workshop and how the work of our marine stewards contributes to the restoration of this important habitat.

Horseshoe crab monitoring at Tiana Bayside wraps up for 2023. Volunteer Coordinator, Hazel Wodehouse, reflects back on an amazing season.

Learn about our Coastal Plant restoration efforts and how YOU can help our pollinators this Valentines Day!