Pages tagged Chesapeake
Cappahosic
A York River oyster from Gloucester, Virginia. Mark Vann planted 50,000 as a hobby in 2013; his wife spent 33 years as a marine scientist at VIMS.
Chesapeake Gold
Hoopers Island Oyster Company's caged triploid oyster, from a farm a third-generation crabber co-founded in 2010. It also runs Maryland's first commercial oyster hatchery.
Chester River
An upper-bay Maryland river farmed by Scott Budden's Orchard Point Oyster Co. since 2015. Rain cut the salinity in 2018–19, and four million oysters were moved to Eastern Bay.
Little Wicomico
The Cockrell family's oyster from a small Northern Neck river, sold as Blackberry. The business dates to 1930 and is in its fourth generation.
Patuxent River
The Maryland river farmed by Tal Petty's Hollywood Oyster Company since 2010. Its Sweet Jesus oyster is sold as "a truffle in a shell".
Tangier Island
Farmed in floating cages off an eroding Chesapeake island of 450 people. Investors and local watermen started it; ice destroyed 600,000 oysters before the first harvest.
The Shucking Houses
A museum at Solomons, the last full-time shucking house at Kent Narrows, and a cannery island in South Carolina: three places where oysters were an industry before they were a delicacy.
Rebuilt Oyster Reefs, Measured
Tred Avon, Pamlico Sound, Tampa Bay and the Indian River Lagoon: four reef-building projects in the US, what each one built, and what its own monitoring found.
Does Shell Recycling Work?
The half-shell boom broke the old loop that returned shell to the reefs. Recycling programs are rebuilding it, but they cover only part of what restoration needs.
The Diseases That Redrew the Oyster Map
Why the Chesapeake lost its oysters, France lost two species in a decade, and Australian farms fear summer. Four diseases, and what they changed on the plate.