[1][2][3] The organization's activities and programs include oyster restoration, shell recycling conservation, and sustainable fishery initiatives.
[9][10][11] ORP plants the native oyster, Crassostrea virginica, back into the Chesapeake Bay.
[15] The organization also works to provide educational opportunities to shellfish farmers on best practices for managing their oyster farms and leases.
[16][17][18][19] ORP also actively works with lawmakers and regulatory agencies to advance policy initiatives that support oyster restoration.
[15][20] The organization created and runs the Shell Recycling Alliance (SRA), an initiative with restaurants, caterers, and seafood wholesales to save used natural oyster shell, regarded as the best material on which to raise new oysters, from ending up in landfills.