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The Status of Virginia’s Public Oyster Resource 2024

Southworth, Melissa
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Mann, Roger L.
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Excerpt from publication: "The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) monitors recruitment of the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791), annually from late spring through early fall, by deploying spatfall1 (settlement and recruitment of larval oysters to the post metamorphic form termed spat) collectors (shellstrings) at various sites in three Virginia western Chesapeake Bay tributaries. The survey provides an estimate of a particular area’s potential for receiving a "strike" or settlement (set) of oysters on the bottom and helps describe the timing of recruitment events in a given year. Information obtained from this monitoring effort provides an overview of long-term recruitment trends in the lower Chesapeake Bay and contributes to the assessment of the current oyster resource condition and the general health of the Bay. These data are also valuable to parties on both the public side (Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC), Conservation Replenishment Department) and private industry who are interested in potential timing and location of shell plantings in order to optimize recruitment of spat on bottom cultch (shell that is available for larval oysters to settle on)..."
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2024-12-01
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Research and Technical Reports Molluscan Ecology Program, Oyster—Monitoring, Oyster fisheries—Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.), Oyster fisheries—Virginia, Oyster—Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
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Southworth, M. and R. Mann. 2024. The status of Virginia’s public oyster resource 2024. Molluscan Ecology Program, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point. 53 pp. https://www.doi.org/10.25773/xws0-5r81
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