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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 | : Tom Horton |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780801848759 |
Download Bay Country Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the changing environment and ecology of the Chesapeake Bay Region of Maryland and Virginia.
Author | : Chesapeake Bay Foundation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) |
ISBN | : |
Download Restoring Chesapeake Gold Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Gregory S. Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2023-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820363499 |
Download Poison Powder Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. They made the poison under contract for a much larger Hopewell company, Allied Chemical. Life Science workers had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. Ingestion of the chemical made their bodies seize and shake. News of ill workers eventually led to the discovery of widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the landscape of the small, working-class city. Not only had Life Science dumped the chemical, but so had Allied when the company manufactured it in the 1960s and early 1970s. The resulting toxic impact was not only on the city of Hopewell but also on the faraway fields where Kepone was used as an insecticide. Aspects of this environmental tragedy are all too common: corporate avarice, ignorance, and regulatory failure combined with race and geography to determine toxicity and shape the response. But the Kepone story also contains some surprising medical, legal, and political moments amid the disaster. With Poison Powder, Gregory S. Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison on the people and natural world long after 1975. Although the manufacture and use of Kepone is now banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, organochlorines have long half-lives, and these toxic compounds and their residues still remain in the environment.
Author | : Howard R. Ernst |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780742523517 |
Download Chesapeake Bay Blues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The USA touts Chesapeake Bay as its premier environmental restoration programme, yet the Bay remains in poor condition.
Author | : Andrew Stuhl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Considering the Oyster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Efforts to introduce non-native oyster species to the Chesapeake Bay and the National Research Council's report titled "Non-Native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : 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.