Oysters at ESC - volunteers required

Published 19:26 on 5 Mar 2026

Please volunteer for a session on the scrubbing day - Wednesday 25 March - or to help make oyster baskets - Tuesday 24 March.

Come scrub some oysters with us!? Harbour Oysters is an initiative from Lottie and Poppy Johns, two local sisters - who spoke at the Club back in November - who are installing baskets of native oysters (Ostrea edulis) under pontoons and jetties to improve the water quality and boost local biodiversity. On the 25 March we shall be putting the latest arrivals through a bio-security 'scrubbing' process at the clubhouse, before they are installed in their new homes underneath our decking area.

Oysters are a keystone species; single oyster filters pollutants from around 150 litres of water per day creating a more habitable environment for other plants and animals. In the summer months, our oysters will breed and repopulate the lost wild stocks that were a key part of our Emsworth heritage.

You can find out more about Harbour Oysters work and what a 'scrub' looks like on their instagram and facebook sites - just search for 'Harbour Oysters' - or via their website Harbour Oysters.