10 Billion More Oysters In The Chesapeake Bay
Conservation

10 Billion More Oysters In The Chesapeake Bay

Looking to build on the progress already made in restoring the Chesapeake’s depleted oyster population, a coalition of more than 20 nonprofit groups, businesses and educational institutions has set a new goal of putting another […]

Chesapeake Bay losing its oyster reefs
Inshore

Chesapeake Bay losing its oyster reefs

The Chesapeake Bay has an oyster problem — but more fundamentally, it has a shell problem. Put simply, there aren’t enough oyster shells available to support a large-scale restoration of the Bay’s depleted bivalve population. […]

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Fishing News - Salt

Virginia Oyster Production Up

Preliminary estimates put Virginia’s oyster harvest during the last year at 504,000 bushels, a 25 percent increase over the previous year and the most harvested since the 1987–88 season. Estimates from the Virginia Marine Resources […]

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Inshore

Record-breaking Oyster Restoration

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has begun distributing more than 79,000 cubic yards of oyster reef building materials (known as clutch) over eight sites on four natural, publicly owned oyster reefs in Galveston Bay and […]