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"Kurt Koenig spent about nine months taking loving care of his baby oysters.
They weren’t much to look at but he was determined to keep them safe.
Last fall, Koenig picked up three five-gallon buckets full of spat — oyster
larvae attached to oyster shells — and brought them to his home on Nabbs Creek
in Glen Burnie. He emptied the buckets into six cages and lowered them from his
dock. Each week he knocked the cages about to keep them clean. In the cold
weather he dropped them to warmer water depths. When it got warm he raised them
again.
The goal was to keep the spat alive and thriving so they could be relocated to
a reef in the Chesapeake Bay as part of a broad, ongoing effort in Maryland and
Virginia to repopulate native oysters in the Chesapeake and its tributaries.
Koenig, who grew up in Texas but came to love the Chesapeake when he was in the
Navy, is one of approximately 1,500 volunteers in Maryland taking part in
Marylanders Grow Oysters, a nonprofit group that helps residents raise oysters
and participate in the repopulation plan.
“I’m just trying to do my part to keep the bay clean,” Koenig, 60, said in a
recent interview. “When I first was introduced to the Chesapeake in the mid- to
late ’90s, it still had a lot of problems. … In the 10 years I’ve been on Nabbs
Creek I’ve seen the creek really starting to flourish.”"
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
