Five million oysters in the Patapsco River by 2020. That’s the goal to be announced Thursday by The Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership, a collaboration between the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore’s Healthy Harbor Initiative and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. “Oysters once ...

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The Waterfront Partnership and Chesapeake Bay Foundation on Wednesday announced an expanded oyster program for Baltimore’s harbor. The program, which now will be called The Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership after launching last year as the Healthy Harbor Oyster Partnership, plans ...

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The Department of Natural Resources’ annual survey of the Chesapeake Bay’s native oyster population produced some good news: The 2013 Fall Oyster Survey indicates the oyster population of the bay has more than doubled since 2010, reaching its highest point since monitoring began in 1985.

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The number of oystermen cited or given warnings for having undersized oysters was at a five-year low this season, which some Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials said is the result of a particularly strong harvest.

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Oyster lovers, rejoice: Three of the 15 projects that received money from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships program’s latest funding round involve novel oyster-farming techniques, program officials announced Wednesday.

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ANNAPOLIS — The first of several shipments containing more than 100,000 tons of fossilized oyster shells was unveiled Friday as part of a public-private partnership to help rebuild habitat in oyster sanctuaries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Gov. Martin O’Malley attended ...

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CAMBRIDGE — One Maryland lab is using science to artificially create, feed and grow oyster larvae no bigger than a grain of sand to help restore the Chesapeake Bay. The Horn Point Hatchery, one of the largest oyster hatcheries on ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia is shedding its late 19th century system of taxing oysters by the bushel for a user fee that will spare watermen mounds of paperwork and return the revenue generated by the fee back to the Chesapeake ...

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When Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Hudak read an article about oysters in the Chesapeake Bay in an in-flight magazine while returning to Baltimore, he thought he might have a shell of an idea.

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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is looking for communities to help raise baby oysters for the 2013 season through the Marylanders Grow Oysters program, now in its sixth year. Volunteers last year raised more than 2 million new oysters ...

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