Employees Participate in Oyster Planting Trip

Since 2013, Franklin Templeton employees have helped to preserve the oyster population and improve the water quality in Baltimore through participation in the Great Baltimore Oyster Partnership. The program was created by the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, in collaboration with local government, business and community partners.

In this program, baby oysters, called oyster spat, are grown at designated oyster garden locations in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, late September through June. At the end of the season, the matured oysters are taken by boat to a protected oyster sanctuary in the Patapsco River, where they will then remain.

On May 24, oyster gardeners, including group of 12 Franklin Templeton employees met to transfer oysters from cages at the Harbor East Marina, Baltimore, MD into bushel baskets and then on to the workboat that took the volunteers with the oysters to the Fort Carroll oyster sanctuary reef. There the oysters were planted in their permanent home. To date, over a million oysters have been planted at the oyster sanctuary.

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