Take 10,000 tons of concrete – in fist-sized and car-sized chunks – slather it with a layer of old shells and garnish with 500,000 baby oysters. What do you have? A recipe for Chesapeake Bay success, environmentalists and anglers hope.

For the first time, a Maryland group building artificial reefs has seeded one of its largest projects with oysters in an attempt to find a new way to coax the bay's most important resident back home. And in another first, Dominion, the Virginia-based energy company, has paid $250,000 for the naming rights.

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