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Chesapeake Oysters
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Katherine J. Livie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-26 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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This cultural and ecological history explores the rise of Chesapeake’s mighty mollusk from Colonial-era harvesting to contemporary cultivation. Oysters are an
Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Kate Livie
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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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 e
Nonnative Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: National Research Council
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-09 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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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
The Oyster Question
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Christine Keiner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland�
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: John Wennersten
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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In the decades after the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster.