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Article: Shell-planting programs boost stocks as well as hopes for better recruitment.(NORTHEAST: OYSTERS)
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- National Fisherman
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- October 1, 2007
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An escalating recovery in Connecticut's oyster fishery has fishermen hoping their still-modest harvest could double by the end of 2007. In Delaware Bay this year, 550,000 bushels of clam shells have been laid down at a cost of $2 million through a shell planting program that aims to emulate Connecticut's success, and advocates want to bring more on.
Planting more shell and catching cownose rays are the latest prescriptions for helping traditional open-water oyster fisheries in Delaware and Chesapeake bays. While skeptics in the science community raise eyebrows at an idea to market the oyster predator as "Chesapeake ray," researchers say recent shelling projects ...