[PDF.57qy] The Oyster (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

The Oyster (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

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 | #3162617 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1996-07-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.50 x.76 x5.00l,.77 | File type: PDF | 230 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| The oyster - as true today as it was 100 years ago|By oysters@ids.net|This reprinting of a book first printed over a hundred years ago is an enjoyable, if somewhat depressing review of the managment and mismanagement of the oyster resources of the Chesapeake Bay. The first half is a review of the biology, and the second goes into all of the politics and problems of trying to| ||"Plump, nutritious, and there for the taking―until the oystermen of Chesapeake Bay got greedy. A century ago, William Brooks, university professor and oyster commissioner, warned of the coming calamity if the dredgers, tongmen, shuckers, packers, brokers, a

"We have wasted our inheritance by improvidence and mismanagement."―William K. Brooks, on the Chesapeake Bay's declining oyster harvests, 1905

The Chesapeake Bay oyster has changed little, if at all, in the century since this popular book was published. But the oyster harvest has fallen to its lowest level on record―from 15 million bushels at the turn of the century to fewer than 100,000 bushels in 1993. What was once the most bountiful source of oysters in ...

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