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harvested only 2,574,433 busels compared to a peak 1885 harvest of 15,000,000 bushels. “Our archaic oyster fishery la dying out because we’re still largely working on a virgin crop and depleting the natural stock,” explained a marine biologist. “We ought to farm the oyster. The question is: How much are the taxpayers willing to pay to support today's oystermen, among them a few who like to sail?” The State of Maryland each year makes conditions favorable for spat—newborn oysters—by dumping 5,000,000 bushels of clean shell near the brood oysters.
At the end of the season, the state employs the oystermen to dredge up the shells, which are then covered with little seed oysters, and move them to places in open water where they grow to maturity.
Even with state help, it seems just a matter of time until modern technology replaces the few remaining oyster sailors.
“No sir, if it comes to drudgin’ with power, I’ll go home and get on relief,” said a grizzled captain. “For sixty years now I’ve been drove hard and put away wet, and if it comes to that I’ll just set there and do neither thing in the world with the rest of ’em.”
Some 18,000 people in two communities of Kenya were put within reach of markets, schools and health facilities after CARE gave $1,500 worth of materials to build a bridge that cut travel by 52 miles. fejJAWA'Ag
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