Aquaculture and the Amazing Oyster
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As part of the third journey, which concentrates on policy that affects the bay, Chesapeake Semester students traveled to Cambridge, MD to visit Horn Point Lab and the Oyster Recovery Partnership to see how oysters are grown in captivity to be released into the bay, in hopes that they will one day repopulate the bay’s endangered oyster population. In the afternoon, the group visited Marinetics, a private aquaculture operation that produces oysters for sale to restaurants and distributors.
The first stop on the trip was Horn Point Laboratory, where Researcher Stephanie Alexander explained the work done at the lab.
Tara Holste ’07
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After an amazing canoe paddle from Rolph’s Wharf to Quaker Neck, the students met with Captain Andrew McCown on the skipjack Elsworth for dinner and stories to be told while anchored in the channel. They would sleep well that night on deck. The following day would require an early morning rise to go crabbing on the Mr. Louis, a rendezvous with Captain Dickie Manning Jr. and his son at their pound net just south of the Corsica, and a stroll along the shore examining the intertidal zone’s diverse wildlife.
