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ORP plants the native oyster, Crassostrea virginica, back into the Chesapeake Bay. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2022, the organization helped to plant over 950,000,000 oysters. [ 15 ] The organization also works to provide educational opportunities to shellfish farmers on best practices for managing their oyster farms and leases.
Over 70% of the program’s funds are spent on projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including planting trees, reducing runoff from farmland and boosting the crab and oyster populations.
Oyster farms provide jobs as well as a natural effort for filtering excess nutrients from the water in an effort to reduce the effects of eutrophication pollution (too much algae). The Chesapeake Bay Program promotes oyster restoration projects to reduce the amount of nitrogen compounds entering the bay. [62]
Map of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that directs and conducts the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. As a partnership, the Chesapeake Bay Program brings together members of various state, federal, academic and local watershed organizations to build and adopt policies ...
Robert T. Brown pulled an oyster shell from a pile freshly harvested by a dredger from the Chesapeake Bay and talked enthusiastically about the larvae attached — a sign of a future generation ...
Oysters across Maryland and Virginia waters are experiencing a rebound thanks to ongoing conservation efforts in specific locations. The Chesapeake Bay Program has announced that efforts to ...
Oyster farming in the Chesapeake Bay has minimal or even positive impacts on the surrounding environment, [21] and numerous oyster restoration projects are underway in the Chesapeake Bay. [22] The Chesapeake Bay Foundation started working in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution in 2022 to revive the oyster population that was disrupted ...
[1] [2] Established in 1986, the company sells 4 million oysters and tens of millions of larvae each year. [1] [3] The company's oyster nursery is located near the Ware River and its aquaculture oyster farm is located in Mobjack Bay. [4] [5] [6] The company is also involved with oyster restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay. [7]