Chesapeake Oysters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chesapeake Oysters write by Katherine J. Livie. This book was released on 2015-10-26. Chesapeake Oysters available 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.
Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2004-03-09. Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay available 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.
Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future
Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future write by Kate Livie. This book was released on 2015. Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future available 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.
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay write by John Wennersten. This book was released on 2007. The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay available 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.
The Oyster Question
The Oyster Question - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oyster Question write by Christine Keiner. This book was released on 2010. The Oyster Question available 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.
