Oyster Growers and Oyster Pirates in San Francisco Bay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10319214 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Booker (0000-0002-6680-9887, North Carolina State University, corresponding author), Matthew Morse Booker (The author is a member of the history department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-88 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/phr.2006.75.1.63 |
| OpenAlex | W1972272973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the late nineteenth century San Francisco Bay hosted one of the American West's most valuable fisheries: Not the bay's native oysters, but Atlantic oysters, shipped across the country by rail and seeded on privately owned tidelands, created private profits and sparked public resistance. Both oyster growers and oyster pirates depended upon a rapidly changing bay ecosystem. Their struggle to possess the bay's productivity revealed the inqualities of ownership in the American West. An unstable nature and shifting perceptions of San Francisco Bay combined to remake the bay into a place to dump waste rather than to find food. Both growers and pirates disappeared following the collapse of the oyster fishery in the early twentieth century
Archaeology · Bay · Biology · Fishery · Geography · Oyster · Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |