Photos: T. Rowe, Morgan Stanley volunteers place seed oysters

Maximilian Franz//June 8, 2015//

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On Monday, volunteers from T. Rowe Price and observers from Morgan Stanley helped sow over 3,000 seed oysters in the Patapsco River. The Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, now in its second year, has brought hundreds of business people together to tend to seed oysters in cages lining the Inner Harbor over the winter to be then seeded in the spring as part of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, and organized by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.

All photos by Maximilian Franz / The Daily Record

: Employees of T. Rowe Price pull seed oysters from cages around the National Aquarium at the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
: Seed oysters, called spat, are seen in the size of a fingernail, growing on oyster shells.


: Capt. John Tapscott, of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, points out where volunteers will place seed oysters in the Patapsco River.
: Adam Lindquist, manager of the Healthy Harbor Initiative, left, helps T. Rowe Price volunteers make an estimated count of the seed oysters on board.

: Jocelyn Tuttle, Baltimore Harbor program manager with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, reveals her estimated count of seed oysters.
: Volunteers test the water salinity at the planting site in the Patapsco River.

: T. Rowe Price employee Fumin Yang dumps a bucket of seed oyster into the waters around Fort Carrol by the Key Bridge.
: Morgan Stanley volunteers pull a trawling net to sample the fish species currently living in the Patapsco.
: This net was full of white perch and a few kinds of catfish.