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The Oyster Recovery Partnership and its partners are beginning another oyster planting season. The Univeristy of Maryland Horn Point Hatchery is currently spawning oysters and growing oyster larvae that will be set on cleaned oyster shells and planted beginning in late April. Meanwhile, Maryland watermen are finishing removing silt and sediment from hundreds of acres of once productive oyster reefs to give the new baby oysters suitable bottom substrate. Learn more about our projects.
For 15 years, the Oyster Recovery Partnership, with its coalition of partners, has been planting hundreds of millions of disease-free oysters back into the Chesapeake Bay. Costing only a few cents to produce and plant, a small donation can plant thousands of oysters and help us restore the Chesapeake Bay. Please help us make a difference. Donate or Volunteer today.
Oyster Recovery Partnership Announces Educational and Environmetnal InitiativesLearn about the new course being charted for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay being discussed by the Oyster Advisory Commission
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Curious what a restored oyster reef looks like? Take a look.
A cluster of four year old hatchery-raised oysters collected during an annual sampling