Bay grasses?

Question

describe how to set up, monitoring , and planting the bay grasses.

Answer 1

Bay grass beds are critical to the Bay’s health because they produce oxygen, reduce wave action, reduce erosion, absorb nutrients and trap sediments. They also provide food and habitat for fishes etc.

The bay grass lab at Ft. Meade has been used since 1998 to experiment with indoor growth and propagation techniques and for raising bay grasses. The goal is to develop simple procedures to allow mass production of bay grasses for transplanting and restoration activities

Micropropagation techniques and turion production methods are also being perfected to increase the survival of transplants used in restoration

To use the Baywide historical bay grass dataset and water clarity criteria to develop methods and criteria for new bay grass restoration acreage goals for the entire Bay and each of its tidal tributaries as well as bay segment-based designated use attainment status

There are several reasons to expect that breakwaters can positively influence bay grass beds:

A breakwater will create more quiescent wave energy environments in the lee of the structure that can be conducive to bay grass colonization and an increase in coverage

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/sav/resto...

Restoring Bay Grasses to the Chesapeake:

http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/MarineNotes/May-...

Bay grass monitoring:

http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?ar...

http://restorationday.noaa.gov/htmls/bay...

Bay grass links:

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/sav/links...

http://maryland.gov/portal/server.pt?ope...