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.
Restoring Chesapeake Gold
Restoring Chesapeake Gold - 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 Restoring Chesapeake Gold write by Chesapeake Bay Foundation. This book was released on 2000. Restoring Chesapeake Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bay Country
Bay Country - 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 Bay Country write by Tom Horton. This book was released on 1989. Bay Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rare combination of insight and infectious good humor mark this poetical collection of land, water, people, and nature. In the traditon of great naturalists, Horton sees the landscape as a departure point from which to explore the universe.
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.
