CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTER METRICS TEAM REPORT STEPHANIE REYNOLDS WESTBY Presentation to Maryland Oyster Advisory CommissionMay 18, 2011.

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CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTER METRICS TEAM REPORT STEPHANIE REYNOLDS WESTBY Presentation to Maryland Oyster Advisory CommissionMay 18, 2011

Oyster Metrics Team: Context Executive Order 13508: Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Oyster Outcome: Restore native oyster habitats and populations in 20 tributaries by Goal was defined; Team was convened by GIT to clarify goal and establish common metrics Oyster Metrics Team convened by Chesapeake Bay Program Sustainable Fisheries GIT

3 Oyster Metrics Team: Charge Develop common Bay-wide restoration goals, success metrics and monitoring and assessment protocols for the purpose of tracking toward the EO strategy outcome (reef-level and tributary-level) For sanctuary reefs only Minimum suite of metrics that should be measured across all sanctuary reefs Should in no way be seen as limiting additional monitoring and research activity. As always: adaptive.

4 Oyster Metrics Team: Charge Membership: NOAA (Stephanie Westby) MD DNR (Eric Weissberger) VMRC (Jim Wesson) PRFC ( AC Carpenter) U.S. Army Corps (Angie Sowers) VIMS (Mark Luckenbach) UMCES (Ken Paynter) Consulting scientists Science-driven consensus process among the primary governmental agencies involved in oyster restoration in the Bay

5 Reef Level:Trib Level: Oyster Metrics Team: Approach Operational goals Functional goals Ultimate goals of restoration: How it functions over time Practical goals: What you plan for; put in the water

6 Reef Level: Oyster Metrics Team: Goals & Metrics Stable or increasing spatial extent, reef height and shell budget Oyster density: o Target: Mean density of 50 oysters/m 2 and 50 grams dry weight /m 2 containing at least two year classes covering at least 30% of the reef area o Minimum Threshold: Mean density of 15 oysters/m 2 and 15 grams dry weight /m 2 containing at least two year classes covering at least 30% of the reef area

7 Trib Level: Oyster Metrics Team: Goals & Metrics Restore, to the reef-level goals, % of currently restorable oyster habitat. Recommend that this be pursued in tributaries for which currently restorable bottom minimally meets the ACOE targets related to the percent of historical bottom (min. of 8% of Yates/ Baylor ground) Trib size: recommend TNC ‘creek’ and ‘small tributary’ size classifications. (Recommendation- not a goal)

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