People, aside from oyster researchers and farmers, likely won’t feel the impact for at least another 18 months.
But, eventually, everyone will know just how bad a year it has been for Maryland oysters.
Thanks to record levels of persistent rainfall throughout the bay watershed, salinity levels in the Chesapeake Bay have remained perilously low since May 2018. The absence of salt in the bay and its tributaries has been annihilating oyster spat production and oyster growth at hatcheries and farms around the region.
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