Chesapeake Bay Oysters Make Major Comeback, Tripling in Number Over 20 Years
Oysters are thriving at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and the news continues to get better for the mollusks and local watermen.
In the past 20 years, the oyster population has grown from 2.4 billion oysters in 2004, to 7.6 billion adult oysters, plus 5 billion spat, or young oysters, in 2024, according to an assessment by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
That means the number of adult oysters in the bay more than tripled...
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