Virginia Oyster Gardening Guide

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We hope this oyster gardening guide will help you learn how. to grow oysters in the most efficient way possible while gaining an …

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A Citizens Guide to Helping Clean Virginia’s Coastal Waterways
VIRGINIA
Oyster GardeningVisit us on the Web at: www.deq.virginia.gov/coastal/
This guide was written and produced by Laura McKay and Virginia Witmer of the Virginia Coastal Zone Management
Program based largely on a document written in 1999 by Mark Luckenbach, Francis O’Beirn and Jake Taylor of the
Virginia Institute of Marine Science: “An Introduction to Culturing Oysters in Virginia”. Our thanks to Mark for letting
us “recycle” that text and for helping to structure this new version. Thanks to Jackie Partin and Chan Chandler of the
Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association, Jim Wesson of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, Laurie Carroll
Sorabella of Oyster Reef Keepers and Lynnhaven 2007 and Chris Moore and Amy Blow of the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation for their guidance and input on this document. Thanks also to Rachel Bullene of the Virginia CZM Program
staff and to our summer intern, Lauren Harris, for their help in researching and compiling information.
Funds for the printing of this document came from the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office to the Virginia Oyster Reef Heritage Foundation. Our thanks to Rich Takacs
at NOAA and Cliff Schroeder at VORHF for their support of…