Oystermen to move 6 million pounds of oysters to Mobile Bay reef | al.com

Oystermen to move 6 million pounds of oysters to Mobile Bay reef | al.com: "An ambitious plan to relocate 6 million pounds of oysters from the upper half of Mobile Bay to create a new, 800-acre public reef farther south will begin March 15, officials announced Tuesday in Bayou La Batre.

Oystermen said the program would save their livelihood -- devastated since Hurricane Katrina by a rapacious marine conch known as the oyster drill and by the opposing forces of drought and excessive rainfall."