Millions of pounds of oyster shells are being recycled to help restore the Louisiana coast

One night in March, Jason Pitre left his Bayou Rosa Oyster Farm in Leeville with sacks of oysters bound for a fundraiser in New Orleans. He’d just pulled those oysters from the waters of Bayou Lafourche, the same his family has worked for four generations. As he opened each oyster, he knew that eventually their shells would be headed back to the coastal again. The shells were collected during the event and fed into a stream of oyster shells, measured in the millions of pounds, that will be used to...