Hi Timothy, Thank you for reaching out! We weren’t trying to imply that sanctuaries were harvested, just that harvesting has occurred in places where public money has been spent for oyster restoration. We've changed the wording in that paragraph to make it clearer.
The areas in Virginia that are being managed with rotational harvest were never sanctuaries. As I reported in the Bay Journal in 2016, Virginia began trying rotational harvesting as it reopened public fishery reefs where the state had replenished shell depleted by harvesting.
In Maryland, watermen want to try rotational harvest, but other than one or two small pilot projects on public fishery reefs, it appears they’re mainly interested in using sanctuaries for that.
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Hi Timothy, Thank you for reaching out! We weren’t trying to imply that sanctuaries were harvested, just that harvesting has occurred in places where public money has been spent for oyster restoration. We've changed the wording in that paragraph to make it clearer.
The areas in Virginia that are being managed with rotational harvest were never sanctuaries. As I reported in the Bay Journal in 2016, Virginia began trying rotational harvesting as it reopened public fishery reefs where the state had replenished shell depleted by harvesting.
https://www.bayjournal.com/article/maryland_looking_at_virginias_oyster_management_method
In Maryland, watermen want to try rotational harvest, but other than one or two small pilot projects on public fishery reefs, it appears they’re mainly interested in using sanctuaries for that.
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