{"id":21336,"date":"2026-06-03T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/after-trump-cut-eastern-shore-oyster-hatchery-survives-another-yea\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:40:04","slug":"after-trump-cut-eastern-shore-oyster-hatchery-survives-another-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/after-trump-cut-eastern-shore-oyster-hatchery-survives-another-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"After Trump cut, Eastern Shore oyster hatchery survives another yea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last year, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration unexpectedly pulled support for operations at Maryland&rsquo;s Horn Point oyster hatchery, officials worried about its future. They thought they might have to lay off half their employees, which would substantially curtail output from a facility that has played a central role in a recent resurgence of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n<div>But lab director Mike Sieracki said he was surprised to learn this spring that Maryland lawmakers had slipped $400,000&nbsp;into the state budget bill&nbsp;for the hatchery.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Then last month, NOAA backfilled over $350,000 it had&nbsp;slashed&nbsp;from the hatchery budget, according<b>&nbsp;<\/b>to statements this week from U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen&rsquo;s office and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, which runs the hatchery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><em>This story by Adam Willis continues. Read the rest at The Banner Montgomery:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>After Trump cut, Eastern Shore oyster hatchery survives another yea<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration unexpectedly pulled support for operations at Maryland&rsquo;s Horn Point oyster hatchery, officials worried about its future. They thought they might have to lay off half their employees, which would substantially curtail output from a facility that has played a central role in a recent resurgence of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/after-trump-cut-eastern-shore-oyster-hatchery-survives-another-yea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;After Trump cut, Eastern Shore oyster hatchery survives another yea&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}