In a sign the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay is improving ... was set for boats that only used dredging. "We put in a new oyster master plan a few years ago that helps with the prices.

We need that oyster to siphon and clean the water in the Chesapeake Bay," Dayme Hahn said ... After another week, they will be loaded up onto a boat and released into the water.

“The Chesapeake and Delaware bay oysters go all over the world ... Wilson wrote a description of the oyster boats on the Delaware Bay for Scribner’s Magazine. According to Wilson, the ...

2500 B.C.: The earliest evidence of oyster harvesting — shell deposits called middens — indicate that people living in the Chesapeake region were eating oysters and other shellfish as long as ...

Last year, with maritime traffic limited in the Patapsco River channel during the typical planting season, oysters grown in and around the Baltimore Harbor that would have gone to Fort Carroll ...

Surveying some of the castles recently as she steered a boat to get close to them, Jackie Shannon, the Virginia oyster restoration manager for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, called them “a great ...

(Courtesy Maryland DNR) The Chesapeake Bay has seen its share of shipwrecks and sunken boats over the centuries ... hard-bottom habitat,” he said. “Oysters, barnacles, mussels, that sort ...

A May report by the federal Chesapeake Bay Program ... his diligent oyster care. He delivered 2,400 healthy spat to the dock of the Maryland Yacht Club in Pasadena where a boat waited to take ...

In a partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Oyster Restoration Program ... It is important to us as we boat, as we fish, as we crab,” YMCA Camp Letts director Meredith Smith said.