As of the end of 2023, 1,572 acres of oyster reefs have been restored across the Chesapeake Bay, which is equal to 2,075 football fields.

The Chesapeake Bay Program has announced that efforts to restore healthy oyster reefs in 10 Chesapeake Bay tributaries by 2025 are on track to be achieved. In the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed ...

Colden said the successes with oysters show the value of a multipronged restoration effort, including oyster plantings at sanctuaries and elsewhere in the bay, and plantings on oyster farms, which ...

How well are oyster populations performing? Most areas of the Chesapeake Bay are seeing oyster population growth, according to the report. One area has already reached the long-term abundance target.

Chesapeake Oyster population on the rise in Chesapeake Bay, new report shows Advocates tell 13News Now they are thrilled to get the report but said more work still needs to be done.

LYNNHAVEN, Va. (WFXR) — Oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay is at a critical point, though efforts have been highly successful, the current momentum needs to be used to expand those ...

The blue crab harvest, too, dropped last season amid efforts by Virginia and Maryland to replenish the population in the Chesapeake Bay. Still, the crabbers' take did not fall to the historic low ...

Oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay is at a critical point, though efforts have been highly successful, the current momentum needs to be used to expand those restoration efforts. That is the ...

In the campaign to restore Chesapeake Bay, oyster sanctuaries rank among the most hotly contested strategies. But new research suggests these no-harvest areas are working, and not only for the ...

As of the end of 2023, 1,572 acres of oyster reefs have been restored across the Chesapeake Bay, which is equal to 2,075 football fields.

In the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, Chesapeake Bay Program partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Maryland Department of ...