OYSTER #1

Associated Press photos/Matt Houston

Juvenile oysters, known as spat, were attached to other halves of oyster shells in Hollywood, Md. Tom Kemp receives the spat from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and raises them just below the surface of the water at his Hickory Landing Creek bay lot in Hollywood. Kemp then dumps them in a protected area in the bay offshore where they live out their adult lives.Associated Press photos/Matt Houston

Juvenile oysters, known as spat, were attached to other halves of oyster shells in Hollywood, Md. Tom Kemp receives the spat from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and raises them just below the surface of the water at his Hickory Landing Creek bay lot in Hollywood. Kemp then dumps them in a protected area in the bay offshore where they live out their adult lives.