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- Spat Pickup Fall 2008
- The season is over! We have given out the last of the spat and our returned oysters are now all happily living on the reef site.
This has been a banner year for both CBF and POWeR with huge numbers of large oysters returned from all the gardeners.
We collected 34,100 oysters from our gardeners this year bringing the total on the site to 84,742.
This fall the oysters have been growing rapidly due to the high salinity,
so it is important that you clean your cages before winter sets in and continue to shake them occasionally.
Be sure to lower them so that they are not exposed to freezing air temperatures.
Thanks again for your participation and we look forward to seeing you and your oysters in June.
- Not yet an oyster gardener?
- This year's workshops have now ended, but here was the 2008 workshop schedule and information on how to become a gardener.
Workshops start in September and run through October (due to the availability of spat).
For information about becoming an oyster gardener in the 2009 season, contact Stephanie Reynolds at CBF
at sreynolds@cbf.org
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 The West River Improvment Association,
(WRIA), is dedicated to the principle that, by working together, residents of Galesville and the surrounding area can protect and improve the quality of life in
the community, including the West River watershed
The Shady Side Peninsula Association,
is the association of citizens' groups and communities on the Shady Side Peninsula
Citizens in the West River community are establishing individual oyster gardens with guidance from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
to provide new one-year old oysters to the santuaries in the coming years.
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