oyster bar

oysters are making a come-back in the bay-i have seen their resurrection myself- so learn about oysters today and consider becoming an oyster farmer this summer.

oyster seminar

the chesapeake bay oyster is slowly coming back due to extensive restoration projects and slight improvements in watershed runoff. join the director of the oyster recovery partnership at the annapolis maritime museum thursday at 7pm for a seminar and discussion on recent efforts.

raw oysters

the oysters i caught(?) last weekend were finally eaten today and they were delicious! i did not rinse them after capture and i kept them in an open plastic baggie: super fresh!

oysters away!

i am very happy to see the oyster bar across from the cabin continuing to produce product! from my kayak, i only took these two out for "testing", but there were a lot in there!
this was a year we did not see many cownose rays up the creek to devour the crop.

oyster farmer

i met a guy tending to his oyster cages on presley creek this weekend. he had been an oyster farmer about 4 years now, ever since his friend on the great wicomico gave him a bag of seedlings. he now has bushels and bushels of fresh oysters! he said i should buy a bag of seedlings and put them off my pier and i would have some of my own to give to john. i am really thinking about it. i few weeks ago, i discovered an oyster reef about 15 feet from my pier! back in the day, (george washington's day, that is), oysters could filter all of the water in the chesapeake in about 3-and-a-half days; in 1988 that filter time increased to 325 days. considering only 2% of the oysters are left, i guess they filter about nothing now. the chesapeake bay foundation has a program for oyster farming in maryland, but i might do may own thing in virginia. the photo above is a skipjack oyster buy-boat i shot in urbanna, virginia.