Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Title | Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2004-03-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309090520 |
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.
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"
Title | 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" PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans |
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Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Title | Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Total Pages | 325 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) |
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Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Title | Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay |
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Release | 2003 |
Genre | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) |
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The Oyster Question
Title | The Oyster Question PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Keiner |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820337188 |
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.
The Eastern Oyster
Title | The Eastern Oyster PDF eBook |
Author | Victor S. Kennedy |
Publisher | University of Maryland Sea Grant Publications |
Total Pages | 760 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | American oyster |
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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.
Letter to Virginia Marine Resources Commission From the Committee On Non-Native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Title | Letter to Virginia Marine Resources Commission From the Committee On Non-Native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Pruitt |
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