{"id":119,"date":"2009-08-07T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T19:14:10","slug":"new-oyster-reef-yields-good-results-in-chesapeake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/08\/07\/new-oyster-reef-yields-good-results-in-chesapeake\/","title":{"rendered":"New Oyster Reef Yields Good Results in Chesapeake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s something you don\u2019t hear about every day: good news about the Chesapeake Bay.\u00a0 The Washington Post is reporting<\/a> that an artificial reef in a tributary is teeming with new life.\u00a0 The reef is nothing more complex than a large pile of shells.\u00a0 Historically reefs like that were so numerous they were a hazard for ships.\u00a0 So many oysters lived in the Chesapeake that they filtered all the water in the bay every few days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The demise of the Chesapeake oyster came around the turn of the last century through a manic and violent harvest that reduced the population to just one percent of historic abundance in less than a century.\u00a0 As many as 15 million oysters were harvested annually in the late 1800’s, compared to 100,000 or less today.<\/p>\n

Scores of people died in the mad pursuit of oysters.\u00a0 Maryland was forced to establish the Oyster Police to protect its oystermen against their counterparts from Virginia.\u00a0 Violent conflicts between watermen from the two states became so common that this era is now known as the Oyster Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s something you don\u2019t hear about every day: good news about the Chesapeake Bay.\u00a0 The Washington Post is reporting that an artificial reef in a tributary is teeming with new life.\u00a0 The reef is nothing more complex than a large pile of shells.\u00a0 Historically reefs like that were so numerous they were a hazard for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,378],"tags":[645,509,646,72532],"coauthors":[5150],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mid-atlantic","category-seafood","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-fishing","tag-oysters","tag-seafood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew Oyster Reef Yields Good Results in Chesapeake - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2009\/08\/07\/new-oyster-reef-yields-good-results-in-chesapeake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Oyster Reef Yields Good Results in Chesapeake - 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