File:Oyster Floats, take 2 (6285974747).jpg

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Description FORT NORFOLK, Va. -- A fourth grader from Virginia Beach’s Seatack Elementary pours oyster spat, or baby oysters, from a mesh bag in order to take a random sampling of the spat Oct, 2, 2011. Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has partnered with fourth graders from the school to build a sanctuary oyster reef along the district’s shore line. They current oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is less than 1 percent of its population when John Smith came to Virginia in the early 17th century and described oysters that were as “big as dinner plates.” (U.S. Army photo/Kerry Solan)
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by norfolkdistrict at https://flickr.com/photos/29327036@N03/6285974747 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 May 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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