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The Oyster Question - Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 (Hardcover, New)
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The Oyster Question - Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Environmental History and the American South
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This book features oyster beds as a political and environmental
battleground. 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 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.
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