OYSTER GARDENING       WEB SITES

• Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Oyster Gardening
  contact Mike Oesterling at (804) 684-7165; e-mail: mike@vims.edu

• Oyster Gardening for Restoration and Education
  A cooperative effort of the Oyster Alliance, which includes the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Oyster Recovery Partnership.

• South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement (SCORE)
  contact Michael Hodges at (843) 953-9241 or hodgesm@mrd.dnr.state.sc.us.

• North Carolina Sea Grant:  Shellfish 4 Us: Backyard Shellfish Gardening

• Tidewater Oyster Gardener’s Association (TOGA)
  contact hellneck@earthlink.net

• New York-New Jersey Baykeeper Oyster Gardening
  732-291-0176
  Oyster Gardening in New York

• Cornell Cooperative Extension:  Spat Program

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  Other Oyster Sites

• Aquaculture Network Information Center's (aquaNIC) shellfish page

• The Oyster Project - Auburn University Marine Extension and Research Center

• Oysters, an Introduction to Anatomy, Ecology, and Disease (PDF) - The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's SciTech Education Program in partnership with Maryland Sea Grant Extension Program.

• Perkinsus marinus - Oyster Disease of Gulf Coast Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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