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The Baltimore Sun (Thu 25 Sep, 2008)
485 million oysters planted in bay in '08
Staff quoted: Horn Point Laboratory
More than 485 million oysters were planted in the Chesapeake Bay in 2008, setting a one-year record for the state's oyster restoration effort, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced yesterday. "The irreplaceable value and role of oysters in our bay gives rise to the need for escalating restoration efforts," O'Malley, a Democrat, said in a statement. Since 2000, more than 1.4 billion oysters have been planted in 1,100 acres of oyster reefs that had lost productivity, officials said. The effort is part of a nonprofit program called the Oyster Recovery Partnership, which doles out federal money to restoration projects and pays watermen to clean the oyster reefs to get rid of diseased oysters. Also yesterday, the governor announced the establishment of an initiative that encourages people who live along the Tred Avon River in Talbot County to grow oysters in cages built by inmates at the Eastern Correctional Institution.