r/halfshell come and post your pictures of oysters !

r/halfshell come and post your pictures of oysters !

He’s specifically helping low income people who may be struggling to keep their homes.

And nothing ever changes smh. What could be something great is ruined before it even started by corruption. So many cycles of cash flow back and forth between organizations and local government that rarely gets even a second look. So many industries filled with group corruption

Anyone know if zebra mussels are affecting them?

They’re moving for land. With the money I could spend on a 2 bedroom condo 45 minutes outside of Boston I could by a 5 bedroom 2 bath full house with a two car garage. That’s why people are moving.

They can be, but dropping 100 people off without warning in the middle of the city on CHRISTMAS EVE makes it a bit tricky to find them somewhere to go immediately

My point as that, if it's profitable, people will take it too far. How am I ignoring science?

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A perfectly good question, it says so right in the article:

>The governor announced in a Board of Public Works meeting that $13.7 million in Capital Grants funding and a $9.1 million contract for the non-profit Oyster Recovery Partnership had been awarded. The funds are said to foster essential capital projects for museums, community centers, medical and athletic facilities, community revitalization, and historical buildings.

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>The Oyster Recovery Partnership is a non-profit organization that collects recycled shell and plants hatchery-reared oysters for reef construction in Maryland’s large-scale oyster restoration tributaries. The funding will support efforts to enhance native oyster populations. It will also help meet the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement of 2014, as well as Maryland’s Oyster Restoration and Aquaculture Development Plan.

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>In addition, the board also approved $1 million for the Department of Natural Resources to conduct surveys to identify oyster habitats and plant hatchery-reared oysters on reefs in the Eastern Bay sanctuaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

More info on the Oyster Recovery Partnership here.

That 9 million dollars could also be used to fix the damn roads in Baltimore.

Ohh wait...F1 paid them to do that for the races there, but that money went to the politicians pockets instead...

Oysters are so good for the environment. It’s amazing at how much dirty water a single oyster can filter and clean up.

The money just would have went to paying his taxes anyways but I guess helping local communities is better than letting the government squander it

Okay. I re-read that paragraph three times. And I think I finally kind of understand it. But it was written absolutely awfully. Mentioning the public works funding first in an article about oyster preservation is really god damn confusing.

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I mean that's pretty much my situation, which is what I was going off of. How did the $250k get paid off if there isn't enough to cover a simple $625 cost? That's a set of tires. That's a car repair bill. We probably just define "a lot" differently, which is alright.

That’s referring to the 13.7 million in public works funding not the 9.1 million oyster grant. If you read a couple more sentences, you will find out what the oyster preservation organization does.

Computer, do we have any new sequences?

I’ve met several people here in my red area of California that specifically cited politics as the reason for moving to Texas/Florida/Carolinas. Now the real reason may definitively be cost of living issues. But I don’t find it that far fetched to see the ultra conservative people moving for political (or perceived political) reasons. Many of them probably moved here from these states in the first place.

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Just because it isn’t a lot to you doesn’t mean it isn’t a lot.

I'm an Oyster loving Marylander, but I hope this is more about revitalizing the bay water than keeping the industry moving. It may not be in the cards to do both. What's worth more?

What are you referring to? Almost literally every comment here is negative.

Eh...

ORP is a consortium of fisheries associations, very closely affiliated with Delmarva Fisheries and various watermen's organizations. They also will donate a good amount of this $9.1 million to the political campaigns of local and state level elected officials.

ORP is not a conservation association. Their mission statement and goals are couched in the language of conservation, but their aims are to maintain the commercial oyster fishery, not to restore the Chesapeake. Much of ORP's leadership are former Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources employees. DNR has previously awarded numerous no-bid contracts in the 7-8 figure range to ORP, without State oversight or accountability. A lot of this taxpayer money was ending up in the coffers of industry lobbyists who went back to Annapolis to give it to Delegates asking for them to keep the checkbook open. Its a circular process and it's pretty ugly. There's no oversight on the money once it's in their hands. There is also extremely lax/nonexistent contract management for the actual recovery work, ie, dredging projects, spat-on-shell, etc. No State officials are monitoring progress. We take their word for it.

Source: I am a Maryland state employee intimately familiar with the local "Old Boy" network. I can see the ledger, in short. DNR was told by the previous Board of Public Works to stop giving Sole Source (No Bid) contracts to ORP. Moore just gave them 9 million dollars. This is not a conservation victory.

This man planted a tree, thought it died only to see it come to life as something so much more then he could ever have expected. I can only imagine how proud he is.