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Our Mussel Watch team is showing some #EstuaryLove along the Texas coast

 birds-eye view of a boat on a mudflat with two people standing on shore and one person in the boatWe’re kicking off February by showing some #EstuaryLove along the Texas coast. Our Mussel Watch team is currently on the ground sampling oysters around Corpus Christi and Port Isabel. Through this program, our scientists monitor for contaminants and stressors in estuaries and along coasts around the country. Learn more about our National Mussel Watch Program: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/science-areas/pollution/mussel-watch/Three people walk in wet sand along a shoreline carrying equipment and buckets.