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 ...

Through a unique "foster parent" program run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, volunteers in Virginia raised more than 110,000 oysters in 2024, bringing new life to local waterways, The News Virginian ...

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

Oysters sustain themselves by sucking microscopic plankton out of the waters they inhabit, a reality that also turns them into natural water filters.

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

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 ...