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Oysters are Helping to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay
- "Over the course of 10 years, ORP reintroduced 4.5 billion oysters, along with a recycling program for empty shells to serve as nurseries for larvae. Virginia saw 10,000 tons of oysters collected during the winter of 2012 to 2013, double the year before and twenty times more than 15 years ago, although it represents only one percent of what was collected in the 1950s." - excerpt from article in globalpost. Oysters may also help with San Francisco Bay restoration and adaptation to climate change and cleaning up the Potomac River estuary.
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