Suitability, disease pressure and water-quality risk are all measured by public
agencies, then scattered across a dozen incompatible sources. We fuse them onto one map so the decision
is obvious. Here is what you can see.
Oyster habitat suitabilityA 0–100 index (HSI) of how good the water is for the
eastern oyster, from mean salinity and temperature. Green is prime, red is stressed.
Disease & food-safety pressureDermo, MSX and Vibrio risk on the same water.
They climb in warm, salty conditions and drive die-offs and summer harvest controls.
Real infrastructureActive aquaculture leases, Limited-Purpose Aquaculture (LPA)
sites and shellfish growing-area boundaries, straight from Maine DMR.
Two regionsMaine Midcoast on real station data (994 water-quality stations); the
Chesapeake Bay as a modeled salinity-gradient prototype, labeled as such.
How to use it: toggle layers on the left, then click any station or lease
for a site report and a plain-language read of its water.
Modeled indices for screening, not a substitute for on-site testing or DMR classification.