"We still have a ways to go." Volunteers work with oysters on critical project that could profoundly change ocean waters: ...

Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae and placed them on reefs made of recycled oyster shells. Dr. Virginia ...

Since one oyster has two shells, if the shells are recycled after a meal, the foundation can plant 20 more larvae, or 10 on each shell, Luecke said. The restoration efforts and cycles continue ...

Delaware Sea Grant’s pilot oyster hatchery recently sent 200 bags of shell with roughly 105,000 oyster spat — or baby oysters — to a commercial aquaculture operation in the Delaware Bay using larvae ...

Those babies grow and a single 3-inch oyster can spawn 10 million to 14 million larvae at a time, which then search for something to latch onto, Perry said. Last year, the nonprofit planted ...

In an established oyster reef, the shells of past generations provide the cultch for future generations of larvae. Over centuries this can create huge deposits of old shell, and this was the case ...

Last fall, Koenig picked up three five-gallon buckets full of spat — oyster larvae attached to oyster shells — and brought them to his home on Nabbs Creek in Glen Burnie.

Fertilized oyster larvae attach to old oyster shells and grow their own new shells over a few years, allowing for the development of massive oyster farms that can be as lucrative as they are ...

As part of the Operation Build-a-Reef campaign, 30 million oyster spat were planted in the Severn River Wednesday at Jonas and Anne Catharine Green Park in Annapolis. Spat, or oyster larvae, were ...

Oyster Larvae. Mature oysters can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day, adding to the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the animals living in it.

For the past 18 months, they have studied water quality and the way oyster larvae disperse in the bay. Oyster populations have dwindled throughout parts of the East Coast and in Oyster Bay ...

Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae and placed them on reefs made of recycled oyster shells. Dr. Virginia Schweiss with the Callie Mae Sea Foundation is behind the study.