The Oyster

by William Keith Brooks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801853915
• ISBN13: 9780801853913
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

The oyster - as true today as it was 100 years ago

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 manage an open fishery. Much of what is said rings true today.