Kent Island restaurant adds a million new oysters to Chesapeake BayAlongside the pier of Libbey’s Coastal Kitchen and Cocktails, right next to where the Bay Bridge makes landfall on Maryland’s Kent Island, stood six guys in a boat weighed down by more than 30 bags full of oyster shells. (WTOP/John Domen) WTOP/John Domen Seven guys wearing wetsuits hopped in the waters of the bay at Libbey’s restaurant, water that’s about 7-8 feet deep, attaching what are called oyster cuffs to pilings. (WTOP/John Domen) WTOP/John Domen In honor of National Oyster Day, there was a big party on Kent Island not to eat oysters, but to help increase the population of them in the Chesapeake Bay. (WTOP/John Domen) WTOP/John Domen The goal was to build new oyster beds around the pilings left over from an old pier near Libbey’s Coastal Kitchen and Cocktails. “I have like 80 people on Kent Island now who are growing oysters who weren’t growing oysters a year or two ago.