Common Ground: Saving the Chesapeake's Oysters
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2013
- Oysters play a critical role in the ecology, economy, and culture of the Chesapeake Bay. This video, shot in 1999, documents the rise and fall of the oyster in the Bay, and focuses on innovative efforts by Chesapeake Bay Foundation and its partners to bring the oyster back to sustainable levels in the Bay. Through historic images, modern views of oyster dredging from skipjacks, extraordinary underwater footage of vibrant oyster reefs, and interviews with watermen, scientists, and oyster restoration volunteers, "Common Ground" provides a fascinating look at a surprisingly complex species. It also reveals the fragility of the Chesapeake's natural system-and the role we all play in saving the Bay. Learn more about CBF's oyster restoration efforts here: www.cbf.org/oysters
This video won the 1999 Cine Golden Eagle Award.
Produced by Silverwood Films, Inc., for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. © 1999
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I am an oceanography student and I found this video very interesting, marine life is some of the most beautiful sites to ever see, the fact that they can go through life and change accordingly to what their population needs, is amazing getting to see this video shows just how important these animals are to our society today.
Today the title would say "Saving Chesapeake Bay with Oysters"!😄
I get to spend 3 days in Provincetown before and another after "high season." $1 oysters are briny, plump and firm. Alot are "farmed: but a significant portion of them are returned to the wild
As a Oceanography teacher I have enjoyed watching the many videos published by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
This is like forensic files level of nostalgia and I love it!!!!
I am a oceanography students and I enjoy watching this video because it gave great information about marine life about oysters. This video gives great details about how oysters are affecting the the Chesapeake bay.
How we got to this point is unimaginable
Listen, not only from over-harvesting, here what concerned most is the Water quantity was POLLUTED, by Chemicals or over-flooded Fertilizer (both nitrate and Phosphate) also from the Detergents. Possibly that the deseases (MSX, etc) existed along, but in very minute quantity, but when water quality went worse (dissolved oxygen depleted) making BLOOM of these Harmful Micro-organism. Also when Environment got spoiled, the Oysters and their larvae got weakened, in the opposite, that the microbes florished /got stronger, simply the shellfish died-off. (1) over-fishing, (2) pollution, (3) oxygen depleted, (4) oyster weakened=>>died-off (to near extinction), (5) their Reefs habits were totally destroyed (by fatal Dredging Crates which is illegal for many years already?)
I was raised in Baltimore when my family was still able to go out on a Saturday or Sunday for a day of "crabbing" by trap or line off Wolf St. pier and elsewhere. We would make an early morning stop at Broadway Market for the cheap chicken scraps which were sold as the bait. I had pretty much given up eating oysters as I entered early adulthood , probably near to the time this film was produced and for all the reasons therein. I also didn't find the Raw Oyster Bars much more than over hyped bacteria cafes. I last went crabbing with my father, long past now, back in the early 90s as a young teen.
I hold these memories dear, and to think of what little of the bay was left even then leaves me doubtful for future generations. I still live in Baltimore and a small part of a family-like business. Having reached my 40s I do not now regret having never strayed too far from the bay.
It doesn't mean "great shellfish bay" :-)
The word Chesepiooc is an Algonquian word referring to a village "at a big river". ... In 2005, Algonquian linguist Blair Rudes "helped to dispel one of the area's most widely held beliefs: that 'Chesapeake' means something like 'great shellfish bay.' It does not, Rudes said.
-Wikipedia
there is a lot of oyster farming now that seems to do real good
i am a student and my teacher forced me to watch this entire video....without any potty breaks
Actually, ordering Chesapeake Bay oysters at a restaurant will HELP the population. The more people that order oysters from the Bay, the more funding and effort there will be to grow oysters. Since oysters can't be harvested until they are a certain size, there will be more oysters growing and filtering the Bay. Just make sure the restaurant recycles their used oyster shells to help build reefs and grow more oysters. :)
Sort of like saying that eating more Bald Eagles will actually save the Bald Eagles.
@@johnnybates7580 Actually, eagles don't taste good
The filter feeding habits of these sea-shells might make TOXIN/chemicals accumulated in the meat, (not only in gut/stomach, that will be cut-off/clear.). So as water quality deteriorated, please avoid/try not to eat them, (can we trust the Health authority for checking the meat, once-weekly or every two weeks or until found s'one got ill from it.) Or no any case reported just yet ?) Are those MSX desease effect man-consumer health.??
It will take at least 50 years to even really see major improvements of the depleted oyster reefs and beds. Hopefully we are not too late! I have enjoyed eating them for decades, but now I will not since it will hurt the recovering population.
I watched this in school
Freshwater mussels anyone?
hue
so..? anyone from frost?
whats frost?
jk yea i am
I hope that by taking care of the land and sea environment around the world we can have a large abundance of animals, enough for the environment and enough for human consumption.
A Little 90's corny but interesting.
Sad stoy
hidemyacc
8 years later....... gotten worst.
The barbarians came and ruined everything