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Author:   Victor S. Kennedy (Chesapeake Biological Laboratory)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781421426549

ISBN 10:   1421426544
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   27 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Units and Terms Used in the Text A Note on Anecdotal and Quantitative Harvest Statistics Chapter 1. Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay, the Immense Protein Factory Chapter 2. Why the Chesapeake Bay Was So Productive and What's Changed Chapter 3. The Spring Fishery for Shad and River Herring: A Hectic Scramble Chapter 4. The World's Greatest Oyster Fishery: An Expansion, Then a Crash Chapter 5. Diamond-backed Terrapins: From Pig Food to Gourmet Delight to Protected Species Chapter 6. Uncontrolled Market Hunting of Waterfowl: A Mass Slaughter Chapter 7. Sturgeon: A Prehistoric High Jumper Fell from Memory Chapter 8. Blue Crabs Hung On Chapter 9. Have Diminished Animal Abundances Remodeled the Bay's Food Webs? Afterword Appendix. Fishing Gear and Methods Further Reading Notes References Index

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Kennedy has examined the Bay's past abundances of seafood... sifting through anecdotal evidence and early surveys to arrive at a sense of just how full of life the Chesapeake was as Europeans began to settle it. His book also pulls together an accounting of how thoroughly we squandered the 'immense protein factory' praised by journalist H. L. Mencken. * Bay Journal *

Kennedy has examined the Bay's past abundances of seafood . . . sifting through anecdotal evidence and early surveys to arrive at a sense of just how full of life the Chesapeake was as Europeans began to settle it. His book also pulls together an accounting of how thoroughly we squandered the 'immense protein factory' praised by journalist H. L. Mencken. * Bay Journal *

Kennedy has examined the Bay's past abundances of seafood . . . sifting through anecdotal evidence and early surveys to arrive at a sense of just how full of life the Chesapeake was as Europeans began to settle it. His book also pulls together an accounting of how thoroughly we squandered the 'immense protein factory' praised by journalist H. L. Mencken. -Bay Journal

Author Information

Victor S. Kennedy is emeritus professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He is a coeditor of Ecology and Conservation of the Diamond-backed Terrapin, The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea virginica, and The Blue Crab: Callinectes sapidus.

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