The Incredible Oyster Reef
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2017
- Most of us who love the Chesapeake Bay know that oysters once existed in storied numbers in an earlier time, long before poor water quality, disease, and harvesting nearly put an end to Crassostrea virginica.
Today as science has taught us so much more about these threats to the Chesapeake Bay’s health, we are thinking about an old question in a new way. Were oysters once abundant because the Bay had clear, clean water or did the Bay have clear, clean water once because oysters were abundant? Not the unsolvable chicken and the egg riddle but a real world research challenge with profound consequences for the success of Bay restoration.
To help get the word out about this more enlightened way of seeing the lowly oyster, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation commissioned this film, to explore oysters not as just another tasty critter in the Bay’s bounty but rather as a keystone species with a remarkable, and it seems, indispensable ability to heal the Bay’s troubled waters.
The now familiar but still amazing statistic that a single oyster can filter and improve the water quality of up to 50 gallons of the Chesapeake Bay in a single day is just a starting point. How exactly does an oyster filter? What gets filtered out? Where does it go?
Oysters provide three broad types of services to a healthy ecosystem and this film is loosely organized around these.
Oysters filter nutrient and sediment pollution from the water.
Oyster reefs create important natural habitat for a variety of aquatic life.
Oysters contribute to the whole of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem making it stronger and more resilient.
Parts of this were filmed at the aquarium where I work. I get to feed that sheepshead every day. He has no idea he's a celebrity! I didn't know this had been posted online, so I'm glad I finally found it. Very nice production indeed!
I need to come by and get a autograph
Cool stuff
So u claim
Just stumbled upon this video, and the production quality is incredible! This deserves more views
I agree
Beautifully filmed and narrated. Oyster reefs are the coral reefs of the Chesapeake Bay.
I agree
Me to
It's always sad to remember the Chesapeake used to be crystal clear hundreds of years ago when it's so murky and unpleasant now, thankfully the last few decades of work have made it cleaner and safe to swim in again but I hope soon we can restore the oyster population and get perfect water clarity again!
The viz was likely never above 20 feet
I love😍the Chesapeake bay and this video!
Here's the times for each of the chapters.
I was given this video for a class assignment, so I marked these to refer back to.
0:00 Prologue
0:40 Introduction
1:06 "Blossom Where You're Planted" (oyster reproduction)
2:35 "Rise from the Muck" (environmental factors)
3:54 "Build It and They Will Come" (other species on the reef)
5:54 "Filtering Factories" (algae and filter feeders)
8:00 "Too Much of a Good Thing" (human effects)
9:32 Closing Message
I'm glad to see some of the other invertebrates that make up oyster reefs (sponges, anemones, mussels, bryozoa, etc.,) got mentioned! This is an insanely well-done video. Very impressive.
Where was this filmed? A lot of the videos I see of oysters are in waters that aren't as clear as this appeared to be
The video was shot in various Maryland and Virginia locations inside the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
4:07 XD The hermit crabs.
This is pretty interesting how they literally start out as nothing and produce a shell 🐚 organs and all while only being able to move for a short period of their life cycle but manage to thrive.
Great information, thank you
oysters: **just casually jizzing**
fish: allow me to introduce myself
This is a really well done video.
I'm building my own reef you should to please save the Chesapeake bay before the eastern oyster has its last filter
Lesson: people need to know enough
Thanks for the vid
Very interesting presentation
Wow ..so good for the community my friend. il try to copy ds project in my community
I watched this after eating a half dozen oysters lol. Now I feel guilty 😭😭... Why must they taste so good!!!! Lol
I agree with you
I living in South Korea here very delicious oyster
Me too see this after eat many oysters 🤣
Me too 🤣 same feeling
Aren't there ones that are farmed or are invasive? I don't know, I've never had oyster
We evolved to eat anything
Was it wild oyster or farmed?
Very Good!
Sad. Save the oysters
Very informative, thank you.😄
Bivalves are the lungs of the shoreline and one of the few farmed seafoods that improves their environment. They’re tasty, too!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What about freshwater mussels?
But answer there came none. And this was hardly odd because they'd eaten every one.
The oysters! The oysters!
I want a oyster with a Pearl REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
🦪
The Chesapeake Bay was prolly a lot clearer when the colonizers first showed up.
Probably 40 foot viz
Jk probably 20 foot viz
Blue crabs are NOT "formidable predators". They're bottom feeders. Scavengers.
They still hunt for smaller crab species and some fish
Save the oysters .... & Eat them ... Stop stealing from the waterman of the bay