📰: Governor Wes Moore Announces Completion of Maryland’s Five Tributary-Scale Oyster Restoration Sanctuaries Maryland formally met its commitment to restore five oyster tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay by completing oyster restoration in the Manokin River Sanctuary on the Lower Eastern Shore this year. Celebrating with federal, university, and nonprofit partners, Maryland Department of Natural Resources Sec. Josh Kurtz joined one of the final oyster deployments in the Manokin on Tuesday and ad