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Author | : Katherine J. Livie |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625853920 |
Download Chesapeake Oysters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This cultural and ecological history explores the rise of Chesapeake’s mighty mollusk from Colonial-era harvesting to contemporary cultivation. Oysters are an essential part of Chesapeake Bay culture and cuisine, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. In later years, however, the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures, and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. To combat the problem, Virginia began leasing its waters to private oyster farmers. Today, these boutique oyster farms are sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. But in Maryland, passionate debate continues among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better path. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2004-03-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309090520 |
Download Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay discusses the proposed plan to offset the dramatic decline in the bay's native oysters by introducing disease-resistant reproductive Suminoe oysters from Asia. It suggests this move should be delayed until more is known about the environmental risks, even though carefully regulated cultivation of sterile Asian oysters in contained areas could help the local industry and researchers. It is also noted that even though these oysters eat the excess algae caused by pollution, it could take decades before there are enough of them to improve water quality.
Author | : Christine Keiner |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820337188 |
Download The Oyster Question Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
Author | : Kate Livie |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 162619825X |
Download Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chesapeake oysters are part of the legacy of the area, history on the half-shell. Read of their beginning (foot-long bivalves!) through cultivation today. The eastern oyster, the humble bivalve and delicous treat, are the living bones of the Chesapeake, as well as the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these impossibly abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters but the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures and overconsumption decimated the population by the end of the twentieth century. While Virginia turned to bottom-leasing, passionate debate continues in Maryland among scientists and oystermen whether aquaculture or wild harvesting is the better way forward. Today, boutique oyster farming in the Bay is sustainably meeting the culinary demand of a new generation of connoisseurs. With careful research and interviews with experts, author Kate Livie presents this dynamic story and a glimpse of what the future may hold.
Author | : John Wennersten |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 061518250X |
Download The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the decades after the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster.
Author | : Victor S. Kennedy |
Publisher | : University of Maryland Sea Grant Publications |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : American oyster |
ISBN | : |
Download The Eastern Oyster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College. The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality. The first comprehensive review of the biology of the eastern oyster in more than thirty years. The twenty-one chapters synthesize every aspect of oyster biology -- for instance, general anatomy, physiology, the circulatory system, reproduction, genetics, diseases -- and issues related to management and aquaculture.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Oyster culture |
ISBN | : |
Download Oyster Reef Habitat Restoration Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Keith Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) |
ISBN | : |
Download The Oyster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Carl J. Sindermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Atlantic Coast (North America) |
ISBN | : |
Download Oyster Mortalities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jamie L.H. Goodall |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439669090 |
Download Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and “Black Sam” Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles. “Rather than an unchanging monolith, Goodall creates a narrative filled with dynamic movement and exchange between the characters, setting, conflict, and resolution of her story. Goodall positioned this narrative to be successful on different levels.” —International Social Science Review