Check out this video for a simple cleaning technique, click here. Then during the summer, it’s time to clean your cages and prepare for arrival of new spat-on-shell in September. This is what the MGO oyster planting event looks like in June: This quick video explains all there is to it: click here. Deliver your baby oysters to the Traces Hollow MGO reef for planting in June.
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Then SRA helps distribute the oyster spat-on-shell and cages to our team of volunteers who hang their cages from their piers during the winter hatching season (September-May). ORP provides the oyster spat-on-shell, cages and arranges delivery from the Cambridge hatchery to the Severn River. Our partners produce the oyster spat-on-shell at the Horn Point Hatchery in Cambridge, Md., which is run by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. One day, we’ll have enough oysters to filter the entire river in a month, then a week and maybe one day, every three days - like oysters used to do. These buoys to form a square to indicate where growers plant their oysters. This reef is marked by four orange flags in the river, just downstream from the Rt. Our oyster growers bring their year-old oysters to plant them on an historic oyster reef known as Traces Hollow. Over the winter, they care for the oyster spat attached to an oyster shell so the oysters can form their own shells and turn into baby oysters.
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In September, SRA distributes millions of cages full of oyster spat-on-shell to our volunteer growers to raise of their piers in the river. Our goal is to repopulate the Severn River with millions, perhaps billions, of oysters, and then let the oysters go to work. That’s why the Severn River Association joined with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) to create an army of volunteer oyster growers on the Severn River. Oysters can help restore water quality in the Severn River because they are nature’s way of cleaning a waterway! We started participating in 2009, and today we have more than 400 voluntary oyster growers helping restore the oyster in the Severn.
SRA was an early adopter of this program. To remedy this situation, the Maryland legislature adopted the MGO program in 2008 to reintroduce oysters into the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Since then, the combination of human activity, development, pollution and diseases degraded water quality to the point where there were no more live oysters. The state started closing our oyster reefs in 1912 due to sewage problems in the Severna Park area.
Unfortunately, the fishery is today off limits to harvesting. The pale green areas on the chart below were once active oyster reefs. This was documented in the 1911 Yates Oyster Survey. We were home to dozens of healthy oyster reefs from the mouth of the Severn all the way into Round Bay and nearly on the doorstep of Severna Park. The Severn River was once a thriving fishery. The Center operates the Horn Point Hatchery in Cambridge, Md., which supplies all over our spat for the Severn River oyster re-population effort. You can help by joining the MGO program! For more information: appreciate the lifecycle of our new oysters, click here to review a nice explanation by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences. The MGO program will help harness the cleaning power of the oyster – each mature oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day - to rebuild our Severn River fishery and oyster reefs and ensure that our river and creeks are always safe to swim in. In 2008, Maryland created the Marylanders Grow Oysters (MGO) program to enlist everyday citizens in the push to repopulate our rivers and the Chesapeake Bay with the Eastern Oyster - nature’s powerhouse water treatment system. PROGRAMS Marylanders Grow Oysters Join The Team Of Oyster Growers On The Severn River
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