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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The Maryland General Assembly committed $2 million for oyster restoration annually in Eastern Bay in 2024 and 2025, with $1m for spat-on-shell plantings in sanctuary areas and $1m for shell and ...

CBF says Chesapeake Bay oyster populations have plummeted due to disease, overharvesting, pollution, and habitat loss. That decline has worsened water quality issues in the Bay and left critical ...

Search for Symbols, analysts, keywords Log in Global Company Headquartered in Virginia Supports Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Oyster Restoration Project Apr. 21, 2023 8:03 AM ETPRA Group, Inc. (PRAA) ...

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.

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 ...

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.