Tuesday, June 22, 2021

This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Like a healthy oyster population. It's paywalled, but just the title gives away the story: Kent County News, DNR to add extra day for oystering after positive stock assessment update

The Department of Natural Resources has proposed a major relaxation of restrictions on oystering after a positive assessment of the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries was released in early June.

The oyster stock assessment update for 2021 showed healthy gains in spat, or juvenile oysters, as well as adult and market-size oysters. It also determined that only three regions of the Chesapeake Bay were fished over criteria limits last year, an improvement from 2018-2019 seasonal assessment when about 19 regions were flagged.

No, you couldn't just let the new oysters live and reproduce; you just gave them to the watermen. 

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Cottagecore Is The New Black on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

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