SMOCS BOARD MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS BUILD TEST REEF SITES AND PLACE YEAR OLD SMOCS' SPAT ON HUNGERFORD CREEK.

SMOCS WORKS WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS

The Southern Maryland Oyster Cultivation Society (SMOCS) has teamed with the University of Maryland Extension [and the Maryland Sea Grant Extension/ Chesapeake Biological Laboratory] Educator[s] in a 4-H project to study oyster aquaculture, and also worked with Our Lady Star of the Sea and Calvert Elementary School students as part of its educational outreach activities

In a ceremony at the Calvert Marine Museum on September 25, 2007, students from Our Lady Star of the Sea School (OLSS) placed flats of oysters in two locations as the first step in a new program to study oysters and their impact on the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Pictured above are the OLSS students in action.