🔒 Closed The world's largest man-made oyster reef

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The world's largest man-made oyster reef was created in Maryland​

Due to overfishing and disease, the oyster population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay was seriously suffering. But thanks to dedicated work by scientists at the Horn Point Laboratory, the Army Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Nature Conservancy, the state is now home to the world's largest man-made oyster reef.

Home to more than one billion oysters, the area is a no-fishing zone, which will hopefully give the population a chance to recover.

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