Fish splash around and will bite on a good lure. It's easy to chicken-neck for crabs.
But oysters - whether they are natural oysters or ones planted for restoration - are all the way at the bottom of rivers, far below the often-murky water.
"It's not like a garden, where you can see it grow," said Chesapeake Bay Foundation scientist Stephanie Reynolds, who was part of an expedition on the Severn River last week to check up on some oyster restoration sites.
The team was comprised of CBF employees and divers from...
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Oysters - 2009-11-24 12:00:43
I'm confused. Why can you still get free oysters at happy hour (and extremely cheap ones at other restaurants) in-season when the population is struggling so mightily? Perhaps a two year moratorium is in order. Put these oyster fisherman to work building reefs and counting oysters in the meantime. Allowing them to fish the reefs that organizations are creating is astoundingly counterproductive.
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