by Jenika Downs | Jul 2, 2018 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
To all of our growers: I would like to personally thank each and every one of you for your participation in The Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative. When we started our program seven years ago, our goal was to double our number of growers each year. In our...
by Jenika Downs | May 14, 2018 | Oyster Announcements, Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Cages, Oyster Growing Information
Only TWO weeks until the Oyster Pick-up! There was a good deal of fouling growth on my cages this past week. Here is what I did: Actively dunk each cage up and down in the water to remove accumulated silt and sediment. Leave the cages on the dock for about 90 minutes...
by Jenika Downs | May 14, 2018 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
Only four weeks until the Oyster Pick-up! There was a good deal of fouling growth on my cages this past week. Here is what I did: Actively dunk each cage up and down in the water to remove accumulated silt and sediment. Leave the cages on the dock for about 90 minutes...
by Jenika Downs | May 14, 2018 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! As we mentioned in our last maintenance letter back in December, we promised to begin sending these letters out again in the Spring as the water tempuratures began to rise. This past winter saw some very low tempurares,...
by Jenika Downs | Oct 9, 2017 | Oyster News, Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative Events
Oyster Deliveries this year were the largest we have ever performed. Last year we had 322 oyster growers and this year we grew to include 386 growers. Those growers signed up to raise 1,022 cages of oyster spat. Our Program Coordinator, Kelsey Spiker, stepped...
