The Chesapeake Bay Program released the 2021 Blue Crab Advisory Report and it found that the blue crab population is not being overfished and is not depleted. The numbers may be down, but the population remains healthy. …
Virginia’s oyster industry, the largest on the East Coast, has survived the pandemic, but growers and producers throughout the commonwealth’s eight oyster regions are still facing a long road to recovery, industry representatives said. …
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has again partnered with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to help support ongoing efforts to restore oyster beds on private shellfish grounds in the state’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. …
Oyster farmers and watermen have been at odds over a regulation that could make it more difficult for oyster farming operations such as Petty’s Hollywood Oyster Company to get started. …
The Chesapeake Bay is known to many for the seafood it produces: blue crabs, oysters and striped bass. In a few years, though, the bay region could become a major producer of an even more …
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