Volunteers Invited To Help Grow Oysters In Baltimore Harbor

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership has acceptable its sights connected an ambitious extremity of increasing implicit a 4th cardinal oysters successful Baltimore’s harbor implicit the adjacent 10 months.

To scope that milestone, the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay Foundation are bringing backmost large-scale oyster gardening workshops to the harbor. They’re inviting volunteers to assistance physique cages, capable them with spat-on-shell and bent them from the dock adjacent the harbor’s promenade.

These budding oysters volition beryllium kept successful the harbor to turn until adjacent summer. From there, the oysters volition beryllium moved to a protected portion of the Patapsco River, wherever they’ll bash their portion to support the Chesapeake Bay steadfast by filtering the h2o and removing harmful pollutants.

The archetypal of 2 workshops unfastened to the nationalist volition beryllium held connected Sunday. Below are details connected some events, arsenic good arsenic accusation connected however you tin RSVP:

Oyster Gardening Workshop

  • Date: Sunday, Sept. 26
  • Time: 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Location: Downtown Sailing Center, 1425 Key Highway
  • Volunteer: Click present to RSVP

Oyster Gardening Workshop

  • Date: Saturday, Oct. 2
  • Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  • Location: Lighthouse Point Marina, 2780 Lighthouse Point East
  • Volunteer: Click present to RSVP

CBS Baltimore Staff

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