Valuable species of shellfish have become harder to find on the East Coast because of degraded habitat caused by a warming environment, according to a pair of scientists that sought to find out whether environmental factors or overfishing was the ...

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The Maryland Department of the Environment has ordered part of the Nanticoke River restricted for shellfish harvesting because of elevated bacteria levels. The department said in a news release that it has reclassified part of the Nanticoke River in Dorchester ...

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(AP) State environmental officials have closed parts of some waterways in Dorchester County to shellfish harvesting after unacceptable bacteria levels were detected. The Maryland Department of the Environment said Thursday that the Hurst Creek and Whitehall Creek areas and a ...

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The Maryland Department of the Environment says portions of the Wye River in Queen Anne’s and Talbot counties are closed to shellfish harvesting because of high bacterial levels. The closure began Monday and includes parts of the Wye East River, ...

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Maryland environmental officials are warning the public to avoid waters of the Chesapeake Bay and the Patapsco River near the site of a sewage main break. Shellfish harvesting has also been closed at the mouth of the Patapsco and nearby ...

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Heavy rains this spring, not this September, killed most of the oysters in the upper Chesapeake Bay. That’s according to preliminary findings from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ annual fall oyster survey. Michael Naylor, director of the department’s shellfish ...

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources have jointly agreed on a streamlined procedure for processing applications for new oyster and other shellfish aquaculture activities in Maryland waters, including the Chesapeake Bay ...

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Funds for aquaculture Maryland’s new shellfish aquaculture financing program will accept a second round of applications between Jan. 2 and January 31, Gov. Martin O’Malley announced. The program is funded at $2.2 million. The Department of Natural Resources received 16 ...

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