Photos: Counting baby oysters in Norfolk

By Stephen M. Katz
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 23, 2011

Tommy Leggett, Virginia Oyster Restoration and Fisheries scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, cleans oysters with a power washer at the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, as volunteer "spat catchers" return their cages of oyster shells on which spat (baby oysters) attached themselves. The oysters are then placed on an oyster reef in the Lafayette River to clean the river and grow the oyster population.

(Stephen M. Katz

The Virginian-Pilot)

Counting baby oysters Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, are, from left, Jackie Shannon of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and volunteers Emma Forbes, Angela Goodpaster and Scott Hoffmann. As part of a foundation project, the oysters will be placed on a reef in the Lafayette River to clean it and grow the oyster population.

(Stephen M. Katz

The Virginian-Pilot

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