Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0191Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a boat's deck, there are four men working and a large number of oysters piled up. Above the image "T9 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V23470 On the Deck of an Oyster at, Chesapeake Bay, Md." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
86- (V23470)
ON THE DECK OF AN OYSTER BOAT, CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD.
This view shows thousands of oysters which have been pulled in by means of dredges which scrape the oysters from the oean bottom into the nets. Then the dredges with nets full of oysters are pulled aboard the boat. There the oysters are empited out and shovelled into piles on the deck. You can see one of the dredges with the net attached to it in the foreground and another one is being emptied by the two men on the left.
When a cargo has been hauled in, the boat steams back to the wharf. There the oysters are taken to a "shucking" room where they are opened. Some of the oysters are shipped in iced containers to fish markets all over the United States. Some are sent to factories to be canned, part of the shells are ground up for fertilizer and chicken feed, and the rest dumped back into the oyster beds.
Oysters live in shallow water near the shore. These shell fish are found all along the Atlantic Coast from New Orleans to Cape Cod. The greatest oyster region is Chesapeake Bay and the second best is Long Island Sound. We take so many oysters out of the Atlantic that is is necessary to restock the waters. This is done by sowing young oysers in beds. The young fasten themselves to rocks and shells. They become full grown when five yers old.
Oysters make up about one-third of the total value of all fish of the United States.
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