Maryland and Virginia Oyster Restoration Interagency Teams Publications
The Maryland and Virginia Oyster Restoration Interagency Teams identify tributaries for large-scale oyster restoration and consult with scientists and partners to develop Oyster Restoration Tributary Plans for each waterway.
2024 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Update
Published on April 4, 2025 in ReportThe 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, which guides the work of the Chesapeake Bay Program, calls for state and federal partners to “restore native oyster habitat and populations in 10 Bay tributaries by 2025, and ensure their protection." This report contains detailed summaries of the Bay-wide, Maryland-specific and Virginia-specific progress made toward this outcome in 2024.
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2022 and 2023 Maryland Oyster Reef Monitoring Report
This report is an analysis of data from the “10 Tributaries” Sanctuary Oyster Restoration Initiative in Maryland. The data discussed in this report were collected in fall 2022 and fall 2023. Trends observed in previous monitoring years generally continued in 2022 and 2023, with a large majority of restored reefs meeting the four Oyster Metrics success criteria measured (oyster density, oyster biomass, multiple year classes and shell budget).
2023 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Update
Published on May 13, 20242022 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Update
Published in Report2020 Maryland Oyster Monitoring Report
Published on October 21, 2021This report describes the results of monitoring done from October 2020 through January 2021 on three- and six-year-old restored oyster reefs in Harris Creek, the Little Choptank River, and the Tred Avon River.
2020 Maryland Oyster Restoration Update
Restoration partners constructed 12 acres of oyster reef and planted more than 160 million spat-on-shell in Maryland in 2020. This document includes details on large-scale oyster restoration in Maryland tributaries.
2020 Virginia Oyster Restoration Update
Restoration partners constructed 74 acres of oyster reefs in Virginia in 2020, including completing a bonus 11th tributary. This document includes details on large-scale oyster restoration in Virginia tributaries.
View detailsGreat Wicomico (Virginia) Oyster Restoration Blueprint
This document details plans for oyster reef restoration--including spatial analysis, map, discussion of substrate/seed needs, and plans for monitoring progress--in Virginia's Great Wicomico River.
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