Cleaning the Cheasapeake

Grass-roots oyster farming initiative may bring important economic and environmental benefits to Cheasapeake Bay.

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August 31, 2000, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Overharvesting, habitat destruction, disease, pollution, and sedimentation" have caused oyster industry in the Cheasapeake Bay to reduce to 1 percent of what it once was a century ago. Now a grass-roots oyster farming initiative may bring important economic and environmental benefits to Cheasapeake Bay. The industry will provide employment and "oysters act like a giant treatment plant, purifying the water as they filter it for their food."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Cleaning the Chesapeake

Wednesday, August 30, 2000 in National Geographic

Community / Economic Development Maryland

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