You may have noticed that some oyster bars are currently being dredged by watermen, especially in the section of the River from Hillsmere to Aberdeen Creek and Brewer Creek to Selby Bay. Please do not worry, the watermen are actually helping the oysters! The local watermen have been hired by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Oyster Recovery Partnership to recover and clean the oyster bars. The watermen use their boats and dredge equipment to remove silt and sediment from the tops of bars in order to prepare them for a natural spat set and/or hatchery seed pl
anting.
Here is a DNR press release from 2009 about the oyster bar rehabilitation program.
Oyster Bar and Land Restoration Projects Fact Sheet
