Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay: An Environmental History
Vic Kennedy, Ph.D. ’70
(2018)

Since the 1800s, when Chesapeake Bay was celebrated for its aquatic bounty, harvest baselines have shifted downward precipitously as fishers and hunters squandered a profound resource. Focusing on the relative productivity and health of its fisheries and wildlife and highlighting shad, oysters, sturgeon, terrapin, and waterfowl, the book helps readers understand the remarkable extent of the Bay’s natural resources in the past so that we can begin to understand what has changed since, and why.