We put millions of oysters in every year to help save the Bay.” Reef Balls About 25% of the viable reefs in the Chesapeake Bay are sanctuaries where harvesting is prohibited. Over the summer and ...

Community members participating in this project raised all these baby oysters and released them into the reef once they grew into adults.

Oysters have been growing there for more than two decades. But last year, the Key Bridge collapse blocked organizers from ...

Chesapeake Bay has added more than six billion oysters ... Oysters are also consequential in preserving coastlines. When oyster reefs form, they serve as natural buffers against coastal erosion ...

Kellie Fiala, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Maryland’s oyster restoration coordinator ... which acts as a reef where babies are eventually planted. When the Key Bridge came down, Fiala ...

This 2.5-minute video shows oyster reefs in two creeks--Harris Creek and Broad Creek, in the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Harris Creek has been an oyster sanctuary since 2010 ...

The Chesapeake Beach Oyster Cultivation Society was awarded the 2024 Community Service Award from the John Hanson Chapter of ...