note faux journalist eugene russell and fox5 reporter melanie alnwick show us how these harvesters gete go on vacation to the chesapeake bay to do what i do for a job every day. >> reporter: miles upstream in the chop tank river a barge unloads its final payload of the season. each oyster shell is carrying precious cargo. >> this one is probably about five days to week old. >> reporter: baby oysters seeds of hope for the future of the chesapeake bay. >> cleaner water, fewer nutrients those are some of the results that can happen from oyster restoration. >> begins where for some it ends. with what oyster lovers call the mermaid's kiss. every crack of a shell, each saul tee slurp, every platter served at seafood restaurants in the chesapeake bay region can be part of the effort to save the bay. not long ago, these shells would have been discarded. >> oysters used to be used for, um, like construction material to build roads. >> rereport marinescientists woe university of maryland, noah and oyster recovery partnership diss covered old oyster shells make pretty good nurseries for new babie

eugene russell who i'm working with, he can show you, there's one right there on the curb.just arrived moments ago, leesburg police. tell us about your conversation with them. >> just a brief conversation telling me that they had come out on last evening to -- to scoop up some of those bags. they had been out in the neighborhood and they were on it. >> reporter: when i covered similar incident bird seed with kkk literature a couple months ago and i spoke with law enforcement, i asked them if it was illegal for people to do this, and they said that the folks who very, very savvy in terms of making sure that they do not break the law. offensive and disturbing but possibly not illegal. >> well, this neighborhood has a no soliciting policy. so, technically there's no soliciting but, of course, people do it, you know. >> reporter: and when you see dr. martin luther king jr.'s picture on the front of this flyer and material, does it concern you and -- about going out and celebrating on monday? >> it doesn't concern me. but what they placed on that paper is incorrect information.