The original plan was to place 75 Reef Balls in the oyster sanctuary east of Point Lookout. The Mar yland Environmental Service contracted the project and coordinated and managed the deployment.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources sponsored a 2003 field test to assess the suitability of Reef Balls for catching a natural oyster spat set. Posted by Chesapeake Bay Fishing Reefs on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Recent Reef Ball reefs include 240 Reef Balls at Winchester Lump in the Severn River and Reef Balls that were poured at National Harbor and placed in Smoot Bay on the tidal Potomac.
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It was this reef, a field trial at the Horn Point oyster hatchery for hatchery spat sets directly onto Reef Balls, Reef Ball pour training and demonstration project sponsored by MES and the Oyster Recovery Partnership on Tilghman Island for the Tilghman Island Fish Haven, collaboration by MES and CBF for early Reef Ball pours for Maryland Bay waters, and success of Reef Balls with hatchery spat set at CBF's Shady Side oyster hatchery with deployment at Hollicutts Noose Fish Haven, that were the foundation for the current use of Reef Balls for oyster restoration and fishing reefs in Bay and tributary waters. The thriving oyster reef that subsequently developed at the alternate site is documented by a Chesapeake Bay Foundation video made a decade later that is on the CBF website. This video shows the first deployment trip off Point Lookout. This decision resulted in one of the alternate sites in upper Tangier Sound receiving a natural spat set. Since this was a field test rather than a fishing reef, Tom O'Connell, MD DNR 's sponsor, accepted my suggestion as project manager for MES, to split the deployment between 3 sanctuaries, thereby increasing the potential for a natural spat set. The Maryland Environmental Service contracted the project and coordinated and managed the deployment.
First Reef Ball Deployment in Maryland Bay Waters
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