spat oysters

Small oyster seeds - or spat-on-shell - can be seen in a dockside bucket, ready to be planted by one of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative 300 volunteers on October 5. Oysters help filter the Chesapeake Bay’s waters by removing excess nitrogen and incorporating it into their shells and tissue as they grow and consume pollutants, rendering them harmless.

EASTON, MD- Dozens of volunteers recently helped to deliver oyster spat-on-shell to oyster growers.

About 70 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative volunteers gathered in Easton on October 5th to deliver about 337,000 oyster spat-on-shell to 300-plus volunteer oyster growers.

The spat-on-shell are housed in protective cages suspended from the grower’s docks throughout the fall and winter. In late spring, volunteers will meet again to collect each grower’s oysters and plant them in a protected oyster sanctuary on the Tred Avon River.

The Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative was founded in 2011 by Eglseder Wealth Management Group, Inc. It was established as part of the state’s “Marylanders Grow Oysters” program to encourage people to become involved in Maryland’s oyster restoration efforts and clean-up of the Chesapeake Bay.

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