Angie Sowers is part of the Baltimore Division of the Army Corps of Engineers, and has focused on the Harris Creek oyster restoration project for years.
"Oysters in the Chesapeake are at very low levels. And we have to not only put oysters back, but also their habitat is lost," Sowers explained.
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Yada ,yada, yada been doing this for years now , what a joke !
They plant the damn oyster beds out there and then they let the watermen go out and catch them all up. What a bunch of friggin idiots running our government. The only way they will ever successfully replentish the oyster bars is to shut the whole industry down completely. Buy back the oystering licenses for the boats and the shucking houses also. After about 10 years if things have improved substantially issue a few licenses on a very limited basis.Anyone caught poaching oysters should be fined about 20 thousand dollars and lose their boat. Of course this will never happen just like replentising the oyster beds will never happen. Politicians get in the way.
Oyster sanctuaries have oysters as long as tour arm, dying of old age and spreading disease because of it.
These areas need to be rotated to keep the stock healthy and quell Dermo and other diseases.
The north half of the bay gets so much sediment deposits from out northern neighbor that there's no habitat in that HALF!
So, there's 50% right there.
Other than that, everything is FINE!
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