[PDF] The American Oyster And The Oyster Industry In New Jersey eBook

Author : Constance McCart EdD.; Rachel Rodgers Dolhanczyk, MA
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 146714794X

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New Jersey's Roaring Twenties saw mob rumrunning operations, Nucky Johnson's Boardwalk Empire and a new craze for dining on local oysters. Whether it was fancy Oysters Rockefeller or simply on the half shell, nationwide demand for the state's Delaware Bay oysters made boomtowns out of Port Norris and Bivalve. Built in 1928, the A.J. Meerwald was a new type of schooner specifically built for oystering the famed Delaware Bay oysters while under sail. As the Depression arrived and wreaked havoc on the industry, the Meerwald stayed afloat, serving with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and then taking up clamming until eventually being discarded on a mud bank. Found and restored to glory, the ship now tours the state's coasts as New Jersey's official tall ship. Authors Rachel Dolhanczyk and Constance McCart chart the history of New Jersey oysters and the historic ship that carries on the industry's traditions today.

Author : William Stainsby
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230460550

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... Which to the flattes dance many a winter's jigge, To dive for cockles and to dig for clams, Whereby her lazy husband's guts she crams." Sir George Carteret, mentions as an inducement to colonists whom he wants to settle in the region about the mouth of the Raritan, that the Bay (i. e. of New York) and Hudson River "are plentifully stored with sturgeon, great bass and other scale fish, eels, and shell fish, as oysters, etc., in great plenty and easy to take." The truth of the above assertion is fully borne out by these extracts from letters taken from Smith's "History of New Jersey," which were written from what is now Perth Amboy to parties in England, somewhere about 1686. "And at Amboy Point and several other places, there is abundance of brave oysters." "Oysters I think, would serve all England." "We have one thing more particular to us, which the others want also, which is vast oyster banks, which is the constant fresh victuals during the winter to English as well as Indians; of these there are many all along our coasts from the sea as high as against New York, whence they come to fetch them." "Oyster shells upon the point to make lime withal, which will wonderfully accommodate us in building good houses (of stone) cheap, warm for winter and cool for summer." "We have store of clams, esteemed much better than oysters; on festivals the Indians feast with them; there are schallops (scallops), but in no great plenty." Just how far up the Hudson River this "store" of oysters extended is not definitely known. The Rev. Samuel Lockwood is quoted by Ingersoll as placing the highest point where they ever flourished, at Tellers Point near Sing Sing. Another authority, Captain Metzgar, quoted by Ingersoll, mentioned Rockland Lake as the...

Author : Bonnie J. McCay
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816544999

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Who owns tidal waters? Are oyster beds common holdings or private property? Questions first raised in colonial New Jersey helped shape American law by giving rise to the public trust doctrine. Today that concept plays a critical role in public advocacy and environmental law. Bonnie McCay now puts that doctrine in perspective by tracing the history of attempts to defend common resources against privatization. She tells of conflicts in New Jersey communities over the last two centuries: how fishermen dependent on common-use rights employed poaching, piracy, and test cases to protect their stake in tidal resources, and how oyster planters whose businesses depended on the enclosure of marine commons engineered test cases of their own to seek protection for their claims. McCay presents some of the most significant cases relating to fishing and waterfront development, describing how the oyster wars were fought on the waters and in the court rooms—and how the public trust doctrine was sometimes reinterpreted to support private interests. She explores the events and people behind the proceedings and addresses the legal, social, and ecological issues these cases represent. Oyster Wars and the Public Trust is an important study of contested property rights from an anthropological perspective that also addresses significant issues in political ecology, institutional economics, environmental history, and the evolution of law. It contributes to our understanding of how competing claims to resources have evolved in the United States and shows that making nature a commodity remains a moral problem even in a market-driven economy.