Tagged Stories: "oysters"

2,000 new oyster cages arE to be added along seven new creeks and rivers as part of the Marylanders Grow Oysters program.

Maryland will expand oyster sanctuaries and aquaculture to help rebuild the Chesapeake Bay's depleted native oyster population.

The federal government will restore clean water in the Chesapeake Bay and its thousands of local waterways.

The Oyster Recovery Partnership has launched Maryland's first Oyster Shell Recycling Alliance.

lvina asked: “What role do oysters play in the heath of the bay? What role might oysters play in the Bay’s future?”

Oyster mortality fell for the fifth straight year in 2007, but oyster reproduction was poor throughout most of Marylands portion of the Bay

The state of Maryland planted nearly 750 million baby oysters - called oyster spat - in the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers in 2009.

Officials with Maryland, Virginia, have decided against introducing Asian oysters as a way to restore the Bay's degraded oyster population.

Marylanders Grow Oysters invites residents along the Tred Avon River, a tributary of the Choptank River in Talbot County, to grow oysters.

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