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The Outdoor Wire (Fri 5 Oct, 2012)
Maryland's 2012 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Results Revealed
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
BALTIMORE - The Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP), the University of Maryland Horn Point Lab Hatchery (UMD HPL), along with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, Thursday announced the results of their 2012 Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration efforts and the first plantings aimed at fulfilling the goals set by federal agencies to restore oyster habitat and populations in 20 Bay tributaries by 2025 in response to President Obama's Executive Order. During the 2012 season, this coalition of partners deployed 634 million spat on shell in Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay, with most of those deployed into the Harris Creek oyster sanctuary. Nearly one third of the 360 acre goal in Harris Creek has been planted with enhanced substrate and spat on shell. In addition, portions of the Upper Bay were restocked with oysters after last year's wide-scale mortality from excessive fresh water.
Chesapeake 360 (Thu 27 Sep, 2012)
Open house for Bay life
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
CAMBRIDGE The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Laboratory, renownedfor its study of marine ecosystems, will open its doors here to visitors 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.
Spirit - Southwest Airlines (Sun 1 Jul, 2012)
Heros of the Half Shell
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt, Melissa Grant
The captain swings the dredge over the side of the boat as it churns through the Choptank River near Cambridge, Maryland. The steel-chain contraption splashes into the water, and the rope attaching it to the boat is pulled taut as the dredge skims the top of a recently restored oyster reef several feet below the surface. Moments later, it's hauled in and hangs, dripping, over the culling table at the back of the boat. When the captain pulls a lever, out tumbles the catch: clumps of reef, each made up of oysters of all sizes growing one on top of the other, their bumpy, gray shells encrusted with mussels and barnacles. Tiny, crawling creatures—fellow inhabitants of the reef—have been hauled up, too, and clamber across the aluminum tabletop.
The Star Democrat (Thu 28 Jun, 2012)
Hatchery produces spat for oyster restoration
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt, Don Boesch
CAMBRIDGE -- The ever-changing recipe for making oysters has nearly been mastered here at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Oyster Hatchery.
WBOC (Salisbury) Television (Wed 20 Jun, 2012)
Hope for Chesapeake Bay's oyster population
Staff quoted: Don Boesch, Mutt Meritt
The oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is extremely low. But there is optimism the oyster industry will recover within the next few years. WBOC's Steven Fisher reports.
Capital Gazette (Wed 20 Jun, 2012)
Effort to save oysters begins in the lab
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
CAMBRIDGE — The path to restoring oysters to the Chesapeake Bay begins in trays filled with water in a dimly lit Eastern Shore lab.
WUSA News 9 (Tue 19 Jun, 2012)
Oyster Hatchery On Track For Record Year
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
CAMBRIDGE, Md. (WUSA) - The Chesapeake Bay Oyster is a regional favorite that's been loved almost to extinction.
WTOP Radio News (Tue 19 Jun, 2012)
Record number of baby oysters spawned in Md.
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
CAMBRIDGE, Md. - It has been a big spring in the long process of restoring oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Baltimore Sun B'More Green Blog (Mon 9 May, 2011)
Scientists say a third or more of sanctuary oysters poached
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt, Ken Paynter
A third or more of all the oysters produced in state hatcheries to rebuild the Chesapeake Bay's shellfish population wind up getting stolen by poachers, reports Kerry Davis of the Capital News Service.
The Annapolis Capital (Mon 9 May, 2011)
Editorial: Poachers' shell game cannot be tolerated
Staff quoted: Mutt Meritt
In a Capital News Service story we published on Friday, state Sen. Roy Dyson of St. Mary's County made an excellent point - one that probably should be emphasized more in discussions of this state's maritime poaching problem.