Maryland Natural Resources Section 4-11A-04

      The Department may set aside for each tidewater public high school no more than 5 acres of submerged barren tidewater lands to be used for the sole purpose of experimental oyster farming or for the cultivation of other shellfish in conjunction with regular scholastic conservation studies. These areas shall be set aside pursuant to the procedures established in § 4-1103 of this title and marked in the manner provided in § 4-11A-10 of this subtitle. These high schools may introduce and use modern methods of planting, harvesting, or marketing fishery products without regard to the restrictive provisions of this subtitle. If a subject school does not use a barren bottom for its studies for three years or if studies are discontinued, the submerged lands shall revert to the State.