Oysters and Tea Leaves / Regulating Colon Health

Everyone knows there are good and bad bacteria. But the importance of identifying the difference has been difficult for some regulators in Maryland to grasp.

Bringing Back the Little Nippers

Oyster tongers on Wicomico River

Unfortunately, diving for oysters requires submerging your body into cold water. Those months with an “R” in them happen to be on the cool side of the calendar.

Bivalve’s dramatic demise is as ‘quiet as a clam’ Large clam species are collapsing throughout the Chesapeake

This clam dredger was underway in 1968 when this photo was taken by NOAA on the Chesapeake Bay.  Clam dredges still operate on the Patuxent.

Unlike oysters, which build elaborate reefs, soft-shell clams burrow into the sediment where they are out of sight – and seemingly out of mind.

Bivalve’s dramatic demise is as ‘quiet as a clam’

This clam dredger was underway in 1968 when this photo was taken by NOAA on the Chesapeake Bay.  Clam dredges still operate on the Patuxent.

Unlike oysters, which build elaborate reefs, soft-shell clams burrow into the sediment where they are out of sight – and seemingly out of mind.

Oysters are cleaning up parts of St. Jerome’s Creek

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By Richard Pelz Special Correspondent THE CHESAPEAKE Larry Jarboe asked me to start writing about oysters. Specifically he asked me to get the facts out there. My knowledge comes from having commercially grown oysters in the Chesapeake Bay for over 25 years.   Larry and I both believe oysters are the key to the Chesapeake Bay’s [...]

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