by The Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative | Jul 14, 2015 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
Final Cage Maintenance And THANK YOU!! To all of our growers: I would like to personally thank each and every one of you for your participation in The Chesapeake Bay “Advance and Protect” Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative. When we started our program four years...
by The Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative | Jun 4, 2015 | Oyster Events, Oyster News, Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative Events
Oyster Pickups this year were the largest we have ever had! Last year we had 84 growers with 326 cages. This year we had 162 growers who maintained 565 cages! On Thursday, May 28th volunteers assembled at the office of Eglseder Wealth Management Group, Inc. to have...
by The Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative | May 19, 2015 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
Maintenance 5-17-15 to 5-24-15 Oh what a difference a week makes! When I did my cage maintenance on Sunday, I was amazed at how much fouling had occurred since last week. In just a week, the rate of fouling had nearly doubled! Here’s what I did and recommend that you...
by The Oyster Reef Recovery Initiative | May 12, 2015 | Oyster Cage Maintenance Letters, Oyster Growing Information
Maintenance 5-10-15 to 5-17-15 Water temperatures are rising….. …..and with that has arrived the increased growth of fouling organisms on the cages. In the past week, there was more accumulated growth on my cages than the two previous weeks combined! There was also...