TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,Victor S.
TI  - Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay: An Environmental History
SN  - 9781421426556
AV  - QH541.5.C65 .K466 2018 
U1  - 577.5/1 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Units and Terms Used in the Text -- A Note on Anecdotal and Quantitative Harvest Statistics -- 1. Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay, the Immense Protein Factory -- 2. Why the Chesapeake Bay Was So Productive and What's Changed -- 3. The Spring Fishery for Shad and River Herring: A Hectic Scramble -- 4. The World's Greatest Oyster Fishery: An Expansion, Then a Crash -- 5. Diamond-backed Terrapins: From Pig Food to Gourmet Delight to Protected Species -- 6. Uncontrolled Market Hunting of Waterfowl: A Mass Slaughter -- 7. Sturgeon: A Prehistoric High Jumper Fell from Memory -- 8. Blue Crabs Hung On -- 9. Have Diminished Animal Abundances Remodeled the Bay's Food Webs? -- Afterword -- Appendix. Fishing Gear and Methods -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - Such knowledge can help illustrate the Bay's potential fertility and stimulate efforts to restore this pivotal maritime system's ecological health and productivity
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