NOAA Fisheries Announces Grants to Study Foreign Oysters for Chesapeake NOAA will provide $2 million for research into whether the introduction of an Asian oyster could be a safe answer to the woes of the Chesapeake Bay native oyster. The research initiative is made of 13 separate projects that will provide the necessary science to develop an environmental impact statement on Maryland and Virginia’s proposal to introduce the Asian oyster to state waters. The research carried out under this funding will be rapidly integrated into the decision-making process through quarterly meetings of the scientists and risk assessors involved in the environmental impact statement. This is a new model for integrating scientific information more rapidly as results are developed and undergo peer review. All of the projects funded by NOAA Fisheries will address questions identified as essential or high priority in a National Research Council report and a Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee report, both released in 2004. For more information, go to:
NOAA Fisheries Announces Grants to Study Foreign Oysters for Chesapeake
NOAA will provide $2 million for research into whether the introduction of an Asian oyster could be a safe answer to the woes of the Chesapeake Bay native oyster. The research initiative is made of 13 separate projects that will provide the necessary science to develop an environmental impact statement on Maryland and Virginia’s proposal to introduce the Asian oyster to state waters.
The research carried out under this funding will be rapidly integrated into the decision-making process through quarterly meetings of the scientists and risk assessors involved in the environmental impact statement. This is a new model for integrating scientific information more rapidly as results are developed and undergo peer review. All of the projects funded by NOAA Fisheries will address questions identified as essential or high priority in a National Research Council report and a Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee report, both released in 2004.
For more information, go to:
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mediacenter