Article: An operational analysis of shell planting strategies for improving the survival of oyster larvae...

Article: Delaware Bay's largest shell-planting to ...
Press of Atlantic City;  July 19, 2006 ;     542 words ... ... largest oyster shell-planting in the Delaware Bay in 30 years ... the second mass shell-planting in decades ... abundant Delaware Bay for more than ... filter in the bay. However, disease ... Last year's shell-planting has proved a ...

Article: Report: Shell-planting program increasing oyster ...
Press of Atlantic City;  May 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... contamination of Delaware Bay oysters, a new report detailed how last year's shell-planting program doubled oyster recruitment in the bay. Rutgers University ... oyster beds in the upper bay, while other areas increased ... However, last summer's shell planting increased baywide ...

Article: Shell-planting programs boost stocks as well as ...
National Fisherman;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 2007. In Delaware Bay this year, 550 ... million through a shell planting program that aims ... Delaware and Chesapeake bays. While skeptics ... shell in Delaware Bay. In North Carolina ... is clear is "the shell planting program is absolutely ...

Article: Oysters returning to Delaware Bay
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... shell were planted in the bay, more than double the ... harvest from the 2005 shell planting is expected to total ... in order to get this bay up and operating the ... be, we really need a shell-planting program that goes through ... onto reefs in Delaware Bay last summer. Shells ...

Article: Fishermen making Delaware Bay hospitable for oysters
Press of Atlantic City;  June 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... MSX disease struck the bay and wiped out its oyster ... federal funding for a broad shell-planting effort. That money leveraged ... the Delaware River and Bay Authority. This year ... harvests increase thanks to shell-planting, so does the pool of ...

Article: Delaware officials celebrate oyster revival program.
Delaware State News (Dover, DE);  July 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... it has increased where shell planting took place. "We can ... the target areas of the bay, which is a big success ... Delaware took out of the bay together in 2005. We ... funding this year for shell planting and a transplant program ... sides of the Delaware Bay. An event, similar ...

Article: Oyster shells as vectors for exotic organisms.(Report)
Journal of Shellfish Research;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... shell may be taken from one bay and placed in another for ... of introductions. Oyster Shell Planting, Including Habitat Restoration ... Powell & Klinck 2007). Shell planting has been further encouraged ... 2007) argue that widespread shell planting has not been effective at ...