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Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm

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Volunteers assist the Oyster Recovery Partnership in their effort to transplant oyster spat before the population is decimated by the Stylochus flatworm. Pallets are loaded with bags containing the spat and brought on board the ROBERTLEE.

Photographer

Mary Hollinger

Display Date

1999 July 15

Location

Maryland, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory

Collection

America's Coastlines

Chesapeake Bay

Conserving and Learning

NOAA Affiliation

NODC biologist

Keywords

Coastline

Chesapeake Bay Maryland