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Appendix I: Letters Requesting A Study On Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Appendix I: Letters Requesting A Study On Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
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Environmental Protection Agency. Letter requesting the study on nonnative oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, 9 January 2002.
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- York Chapter TRUSTEES On behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, I want to formally request that DoYnald F Boesch the Ocean Studies Board undertake at its earliest convenience a study of the D Kegith Campbeli oyster Crassostrea ariakensis and its proposed introduction into Chesapeake J
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ariakens~s, identify key gaps for which research would be required, and assess the risks inherent in utilizing this species to support Chesapeake Bay fisheries. Under the circumstances of impressive initial results with this oyster and resultant political pressure for introduction, the need is urgent.
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Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Pronoun Office, I am requesting assistance from the National Academy of Sciences on issues related to the possible establishment of non-native oyster aquacul~ure in the waters of the Bay. Currently, the species most discussed for such introduction is the Suminoe oyster, or Crassostrea .
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, the dire need for guidance in identifying research that would be essential to support an informed decision, and our interest in obtaining an independent evaluation of research results, Ask assessment needs, and oyster management options, I On requesting your consideration of a National Academy of Sciences evaluation of these issues, If you are agreeable to considering such an evaluation, I suggest that we could convene a small meeting of interested patties within the next few weeks. I look forward to hearing Tom you at your earliest convenience.
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En~ocmental Protection Agency 1200 Pex~nsylvan:ia Avenue, ~W W~ngton, DC 20460 De~ Arlministrator Whi~ and A~niral Lautertb~her: . V~ce Admiral Cor~rad C
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Gopnik: -. ~~ ~ recommission Vie assembly January 16, 2002 I am writing on behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Commission to request that the Ocean Studies Board undertake a study of the oyster ('/ CI.S'.N'~.5'll CO c,7 ic~kewsi.s and its proposed introduction into Chesapeake Bay.
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requests that the Oceans Studies Board make (.'. ariakensis an immediate priority for study.
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in the Chesapeake Bay and other Atlantic coast estuaries has led the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as scientific and fisheries industry organizations, to examine the possible role of diseaseresistant, non-native oysters in the revitalization of the oyster industry, and WHEREAS, trials in Virginia using sterile, triploid individuals of an Asian oyster species, C'rassc~strea ariake~`is, have shown that it is 'hole resistant to the diseases decimating the native oyster, grows faster, and could fare well ill the '~,a~-ket, arid WHEREAS, proposals to initiate commercial aquacultu'-e p~-oductio'~ of ('. c''ic~ke'~sis in the Bay, using non-reproductive triploid organisms, are forthcoming, and WHEREAS, possible risks associated with unintentional or intentional establishment of reproductive populations of (I.
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BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Chesapeake Bay Commission requests that the Academy conduct this study in a time-sensitive manner, if possible within one year.
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