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San Diego Bay Improving After Reef Balls
City of Palmetto Bay, FL, USA
April 29, 2025

Since early 2021 360 Reef Balls have been placed in San Diego Bay and the Chula Vista Wildlife Preserve - a former power-plant site - is now teeming with fish, invertebrates, sea turtles, all sorts of birds, like the endangered least tern, and osprey as well as unexpected residents like octopus… “Habitat we hadn't planned on but the more the merrier,” laughs Eileen Maher, Director of Environmental Conservation for the Port of San Diego.
Carbon sequestering eel grass now grows at the site and the Reef Balls include oyster shell from the Carlsbad Aquafarm which would have been trash but now contributes to the environmental rebirth.