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were pulled from its waters every year, but that number has since dropped by 98 percent due to a depressing combination of overfishing, degradation of their habitats, and water pollution.oyster restoration programs
"We’re clearly not going to meet [last year's] 3,000 bushel mark this year. Through March of this year we collected 556 bushels of shells in Virginia. We’ve received very few shells since then," Jackie Shannon, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Virginia Oyster Restoration Manager, told"Luckily we have excess shells in storage from previous years when we collected more than were used for oyster restoration work.
The CRCL had 19 restaurant partners before the pandemic, although it is unsure how many of them will reopen when it's safe to do so. It is also trying to adjust its volunteer events to ensure that they adhere to social distancing guidelines. "The pandemic will affect the size and timing of future reef building projects, and it will delay volunteer shell bagging events since we have to let shell cure before it can be used to build reefs," Karst said.
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