Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay : An Environmental History.

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.

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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