Chesapeake Ice Sets Oysters Adrift

Oyster cages missing in Chesapeake Bay due to weather

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is asking fishermen, boaters and coastal residents to be on the lookout for missing oyster cages.

Foundation spokesman Chuck Epes tells The Daily Press (http://bit.ly/1KqkrzU) that high winds, ice and snow caused about 175 cages to break loose and drift off into the bay. As of Tuesday, about 70 cages have been found.

Epes says the cages are used by Tangier Island watermen to grow oysters. They are about 3 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep and are fixed to black plastic floats.

Post by Annapolis Maritime Society.