State Slashes Oyster Restoration Acreage Goal

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Title: State Slashes Oyster Restoration Acreage Goal

Date: 11-02-2017 01:34 PM

Summary: Maryland has decided to reduce the large-scale oyster restoration project goal in the Little Choptank River after boaters ran aground at another sanctuary and some of the man-made reefs there had to be rebuilt.

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A bit hard for me to understand. These artificial reefs for oysters are only fo oysters to clean the River and not for harvesting?

If you plant oysters on rocks how cou;ld you harvest them Certainly not with tongs or dredges. Only a diver could get them.
I am told the new oyster they are planting in St. Clements and the narrows do not regenerate themselves. They have no spat?
What is wrong with dredging the sand off the old oyster bars , getting the sand off the shells already there and getting a spat hit?
They should have allowed dredging years ago when the old bars started sanding over.
Leasing the grounds in so many places has take a lot of the old oyster bars and cut down on where a licensed waterman can go to oyster for the oysters that grow naturally.
What happens to those bars if the new oyster doesn't produce spat any longer?