NOAA Fisheries will provide funding for dam removals on the Patapsco River and oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. NOAA will disburse $1.34 million for oyster reef construction on the Lafayette River in Virginia and Harris Creek in Maryland. … Continued
In October, Governor Martin O’Malley announced that the State and its partners produced and planted a record number of native baby oysters (spat) in 2013. The University of Maryland Horn Point Lab Oyster Hatchery team in Cambridge set a new … Continued
On October 5th, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), the Maryland Artificial Reef Initiative (MARI) and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) finished construction of an artificial oyster reef alongside the Bill Burton Fishing Pier adjacent to the Fredrick C. … Continued
A group of Chesapeake Bay researchers have published a groundbreaking study in April’s issue of the Marine Ecology Progress Series Journal with findings that indicate restored oyster reefs could have greater impacts on estuarine water quality than previously thought, refining … Continued