Chesapeake: Can Oysters Save the Bay?
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2014
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(Earth Focus: Episode 65) After centuries of over harvesting and bouts of disease, oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay plummeted along with profits for the oyster industry and the health of the Bay. In some areas, native oysters are becoming more abundant. But culture and ecology clash as watermen, who depend on harvesting oysters for income, are at odds with scientists and conservationists who want to restore oyster populations. Filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown looks at oysters and the people behind them in her new film Spat! Bringing Oysters Back to the Bay. An Earth Focus special presentation.
I'd like to see the Chesapeake Bay Foundation restock just one river in the Bay. Pack the shallows along the sides with oysters and then watch how clean the water gets.
Images from Google Maps show where the oyster beds are on the Severn because the water's so clear there. I feel like if the CBF did it in one river it'd be something they could point to to ask for funding and community support as river/Bay users would want their water that crystal clear and full of fish/seaweed as well.
It's all tied up in politics now which screws up everything.
Turn the fisherman into oysters farmers make them raise their own oysters
No we are talking.
And as in some countries, make the farms properly plant 10% of the seed to areas within a certain distance of the farms to encourage wild populations.
Dredging for oysters kill the beds but no one wants to admit it. I used to dredge my leases on Prince Edward Island but after about 15 years I almost ruined my oyster beds. Now i tong only and within 10 years found my beds back at full production
It has made a big difference in water clarity. Keep it going! Next is we HAVE to stop the raw sewage dumping!!!!! Vom
Oysters down here in the Rappahannock & Great Wicomico seem to be doing well.
Google Earth satellite images show how much clearer the water is today with the reintroduction of oyster beds... acres and acres of new underwater grasses. The sunlight can now reach the bottom.
Are we ignoring the fact that Payton Manning is narrating this?
I feel so bad for these waterman that are being prevented from Harvesting as they need by the Dollar.
The “ Big Regulation “ is The Ecosystem !!!!
It's really too bad that HD wasn't a thing back before the oyster population was decimated because if we could see with our own eyes what the bay and all of its tributaries used to look like and produce then maybe people would be more motivated to do something about it. I've read that there were so many crabs and fish that they were used to fertilize the fields. The water looked more like the Caribbean than what it looks like now even though it looks way better now on the rivers that I have gone to. Now it's so political that who knows what will happen?
Short answer.... no
No Oyster - No fisherman.
Simple as that.
No Trees ~ No loggers.
It’s only a couple hours from where I live now . I’ve been there working and in Philly , Maryland , Massachusetts and D.C. . They seafood and fish sandwiches are bomb there . A year ago I was in upstate New York by Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes like Skaneateles . Lake Skaneateles is one of the prettiest lakes I’ve ever seen and it has monster fish in it cause it’s over 300 ft deep and a natural lake made by glaciers ...
We work out in Colorado and in Texas at the job I’m at right now ...
The Marcellus / Utica region is pretty large ...
Put a moratorium on the harvest for 5 years and see it totally come back
Yeah and what will the waterman do for five years genius?
@@tonylaird7849 I get your point but looking at the bigger picture, they can drive for Uber or something. At our current rate they will b out of a job eventually anyways. I've grown up in Maryland and I understand families depend on the bay for their livelihood but consider the species of fish and manatees and otters and all kinds of things that should be there that those same watermen could be using to profit if we hadn't messed it up so bad.
@@MahoneyBadger Apparently you don't know what you are talking about.
@@MahoneyBadger There are more oysters now than there have been since the mid-70s.
@@tonylaird7849 which is still nowhere close to what it was in the 17 and 1800’s
Yes the diseases became a problem because due to over fishing they remove the oysters that are the healthiest. drought is something fairly common but it only is a problem when breeding stocks are so low.
I would love to break the mortality rate down between the sanctuaries and the fished areas.
which type of oyster is this please?
they have been saying this for years but nothing happens
Aquaculture is the future.
You can buy Chesapeake Bay oyster shells on eBay.
What about mangrove forests? Don’t they have them in Florida for filtering the water?
Well if ya stop eating them you can save oysters 😭
how dose one "produce" a "sterile" animal, year round, why did this video not go into how this scientist is able to reproduce this oyster, and yet have it be sterile.
Don't question I work on the water cents I was 3 I'm 12 now so I know all about this so just research
We need to farm oysters instead of hunt and gather. Hold my beer. Also I designed an oyster which does not reproduce.
Oysters have been dying off since the 1960s. Science can not figure it out and politics allows the sale of the few we have left.
if they would just stop studying and put the money in the water. also, they keep blaming the watermen when the state is the one who sets the limits.
And the limits are never enough because the watermen lobby the state.
Limits are a balancing act of how much they are allowed to take now vs next year. Look at king crabs, because of overfishing none stop and the limits never being enough there is no season for them this year.
Oysters are so expensive this days
Growing up I lived on Long Creek in Va. Beach. We picked oysters off of the bulkhead, used our feet to feel for clams and caught flounder, Spec trout and any number of other fish right off of our lawn. Back then we also shot doves from the yard and carried our shot guns to school, put them in our lockers and hunted rabbits and doves after school. Mike
@@michaelwaddeington5307 1930?
Are these fishermen really that ignorant, you can’t rape the estuary continuously and think that there will be anything left for your children. Please leave something for tomorrow.
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What the regulation-haters have to ask themselves is, "Would I be doing this for a living if it was completely unregulated?"
XD
Ah what a wonderful romantic production for the watermen and the Chesapeake Bay but unfortunately the American Ignoramus shuffling to the stores everyday to buy the produce the watermen provide could care less about any romantic notions of life and culture of the man providing such bountiful and delicious produce. All that really matters to the majority of the ignorant populations is how much they can get for the cheapest cost involved in said activity. They have been raised to be efficient consumers(destroyers) for all matter of products that are mass produced by mostly large corporations in an ever increasing vast human machine of production and destruction the world has ever seen. It is this non natural system of economics that has been foisted on us as people and then a vast system of propaganda and mind control that maintains this continual cycle of destruction that soon enough will not only wipe out the Chesapeake bay but the entirety of the earth and its natural systems of repair from what was natural destruction of volcanoes, hurricanes etc., etc. The waterman will stand up and claim he isn't the problem and the farmer the business man the corporation the homeowner and everyone else claim the same thing whilst pointing the finger to everyone else not realizing that everyone under this economic system is the problem and the stats that no one reads and few understand point this out rather easily. No matter of government regulation can fix this mountain of a problem because to do that would cause mass economic destruction and no one is willing to do that because profit and money is the new deity and until this new god is destroyed then the degradation and destruction will continue until that monumental day comes when the house of cards collapse and all the furniture in the theater is put away the curtains drawn to shoe everyone that all this was in reality a massive play that had a beginning and an end and in that end you'll see the brick walls that really surround you!
Signed Ted K. 😂
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