A short documentary highlighting the crabbing industry on the Chesapeake Bay and how pollution is forcing this great and historical industry into extinction. A film by TJ Cooney Filmed with a Nikon D5100 tjcooney.com
Nice work TJ. Makes me really sad, the comment about the water clarity. I often wondered how middle and northeastern water looked before our time, really sucks it's been ruined so us and ours won't enjoy it like it used to be.
The water on the South River is clear with hundreds of acres of new underwater grasses. Just keep planting new oyster beds and let the filters do their thing... it's working. Crabs were very abundant this summer, lots of places for baby crabs to hide and grow with all of the grass.
Our local economy is related to the pollution of the Chesapeake Bay because there is pollution in the air from gases and not every one recycles or throws trash in the trash can so they throw stuff on the floor and that can runoff into the water.
The Indians taught the settlers how to harvest, and that it should be kept in balance. What did they do? They made bigger tongs, then dredges that destroyed oyster beds, and forced the government to protect from over harvesting, then lease the bottoms. When outside dredgers leased the beds, wars were started on the bay. This was while the woods were being cut down and stripped for farmland and the timber was being sent back to Europe because the same exact people that invaded America had destroyed most all their woods there from greed. They came here, and brought their greed with them. My family used to be watermen, I have heard all the tall tales of how in the earlier days they netted more than allowed, hid the fish in barns or in small ice houses then trucked them across state lines, and still today you hear of illegal fishing. Thank Agustine Herman for the idea of joining the Chesapeake and Delaware bays with the C&D canal, certainly effecting the natural harmony of both bays, then the impact of so called advancement, automobiles, industry, motor powered vessels, all the small town and city treatment plants, stripped fields, years of mishaps, mistakes, and it just keeps growing. The bay met its demise when those first settlers came here, no different than they had destroyed Europe. Who destroyed the bay? Anybody who has European ancestry.destroyed that, the woods, and a whole culture of people. So, my opinion, if you can no longer work the water, your were part of that problem, and you just have to learn another trade, even if it means you have to have a boss and be told what to do, something most watermen hate....
ecocracy - a government controlled by the spirit of the planet which can intuit the feelings and needs of all life and souls who live upon it, and can send then the nurturing and experience they need, as they learn to live in deeper and deeper harmony with nature, which is actually not extreme at all, it doesn't always involve isolating yourself completely in nature and growing all your own food, theres a middle way that can save energy and teach you a lot about life, if you r just conscious
When I left MD in 1988, phosphates in detergents had long since been banned and the bay's quality was already a wreck. A few years later, Mom sent me a clipping from the paper that there was now a slot limit on stripers. I never even knew anyone other than me who'd ever caught one! The only one I got was about 16" long and skinny as a hammer handle. :-( Now the fishery is thriving. When I look at Google's satellite maps of the Severn River, I can hardly believe how much better it looks. Everywhere they put experimental oyster beds, the water is CLEAR. Two years ago my friends were posting videos of dolphin pods swimming up the river. What in the actual? I had no idea that was EVER a thing!!! The old people in my community chimed in with, "It's been so long since we've seen dolphins in the river..." I kinda lost interest when the crabber started talking about the bridge/tunnel blocking water flow into the bay... It was built in 1960. The issues would have started THAT YEAR if it had anything to do with it (it doesn't). The chicken farmer who thinks "they put arsenic and heavy metals in the chicken feed" and it gets into the water supply? Test it. NO ONE PUTS ARSENIC OR HEAVY METALS INTO CHICKEN FEED. Why would they pay extra for those ingredients and then not list them on the packaging?!?! Right. They wouldn't. Go to the feed shop. A bag of chicken feed is $20. Send off a sample and get it tested. When people say anything about heavy metals being in something, ask them WHICH heavy metals and the story stutters to a halt. "WHICH toxins does the lavender oil draw out?" (through your waterproof skin)
This problem has been around for years. I lived there, grew up with the bay even. Thanks to the run off, boaters dumping their waste, and over fishing soon it will be dead.
Haha funny how THE BAY (the horror movie) on the Chesapeake Bay, just got released in France and that i just came back from watching it aha... Good job!
I cannot comment on the CO OP, but the overall message in this film is that we have to protect the bay for more than just our planet's health. But that there are many people's livelihoods at stake.
So I says to them, I says, eff this Templar, masonic, shite, whats with all the new school crap, and why is it all evil? its immature, the real knights were never evil, you only become a knight if youre a really good person, like a paladin... this must happen every once in a while, but we must remember knights, are mostly good, and in these days, they don't even need to use swords, or weapons at all, see through the distorted mirrors! we're some kind of knights of something, like joan of arc...
If everyone adopted a whole-foods, plant-based diet and this unsustainable, polluting agriculture and farm animal raising were to be extinct, we could greatly help to fix this issue. World hunger could be solved as the crops for animal feed could be our own and water and land preservation would be drastically increased. All it takes is people getting over themselves and realizing that WE are the problem, and we must find the source of these issues to actually stop them from happening, if we want to continue to live as a species.
I'm sick of listening to these guys cry.They crab all summer and then dredge the female crabs all winter. They scrape the bay's grass flats for peelers and soft crabs. They've resisted regulation for years and refuse to join a CO OP to get fair price for the crabs. In addition; whenever the DNR starts a oyster bar development program they sneak in at night and steal the oysters with illegal dredges. Pollution is a problem but they have shot themselves in the foot for years.
This is a film on the Maryland crabbers, the Virginia crabbers are the one's who dredge and scrape the bottom of the bay. It is illegal in Maryland to do so. Also, "they" who steal are not the crabbers who do this for their living. It is people from the outside, most often people on luxury boats. (At least from what DNR has reported) The many crabbers who I have interviewed shared the same issues, which are pollution, illegal fishing, and lack of enforcement on the illegal activity.
Great video you put together brother. This video needs to be shared.
Thanks for raising awareness
Nice work TJ. Makes me really sad, the comment about the water clarity. I often wondered how middle and northeastern water looked before our time, really sucks it's been ruined so us and ours won't enjoy it like it used to be.
Nice job.
The water on the South River is clear with hundreds of acres of new underwater grasses. Just keep planting new oyster beds and let the filters do their thing... it's working. Crabs were very abundant this summer, lots of places for baby crabs to hide and grow with all of the grass.
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Our local economy is related to the pollution of the Chesapeake Bay because there is pollution in the air from gases and not every one recycles or throws trash in the trash can so they throw stuff on the floor and that can runoff into the water.
The Indians taught the settlers how to harvest, and that it should be kept in balance. What did they do? They made bigger tongs, then dredges that destroyed oyster beds, and forced the government to protect from over harvesting, then lease the bottoms. When outside dredgers leased the beds, wars were started on the bay. This was while the woods were being cut down and stripped for farmland and the timber was being sent back to Europe because the same exact people that invaded America had destroyed most all their woods there from greed. They came here, and brought their greed with them. My family used to be watermen, I have heard all the tall tales of how in the earlier days they netted more than allowed, hid the fish in barns or in small ice houses then trucked them across state lines, and still today you hear of illegal fishing. Thank Agustine Herman for the idea of joining the Chesapeake and Delaware bays with the C&D canal, certainly effecting the natural harmony of both bays, then the impact of so called advancement, automobiles, industry, motor powered vessels, all the small town and city treatment plants, stripped fields, years of mishaps, mistakes, and it just keeps growing. The bay met its demise when those first settlers came here, no different than they had destroyed Europe. Who destroyed the bay? Anybody who has European ancestry.destroyed that, the woods, and a whole culture of people. So, my opinion, if you can no longer work the water, your were part of that problem, and you just have to learn another trade, even if it means you have to have a boss and be told what to do, something most watermen hate....
Is the isopod story real
ecocracy - a government controlled by the spirit of the planet which can intuit the feelings and needs of all life and souls who live upon it, and can send then the nurturing and experience they need, as they learn to live in deeper and deeper harmony with nature, which is actually not extreme at all, it doesn't always involve isolating yourself completely in nature and growing all your own food, theres a middle way that can save energy and teach you a lot about life, if you r just conscious
And here the end that is so sad
when did you film this?
+Joe M I filmed this in the Fall of 2010
never heard of the CBBT restricting water flow to the bay.
+Bill Thomas makes sence though.
When I left MD in 1988, phosphates in detergents had long since been banned and the bay's quality was already a wreck.
A few years later, Mom sent me a clipping from the paper that there was now a slot limit on stripers. I never even knew anyone other than me who'd ever caught one! The only one I got was about 16" long and skinny as a hammer handle. :-(
Now the fishery is thriving. When I look at Google's satellite maps of the Severn River, I can hardly believe how much better it looks. Everywhere they put experimental oyster beds, the water is CLEAR.
Two years ago my friends were posting videos of dolphin pods swimming up the river. What in the actual? I had no idea that was EVER a thing!!! The old people in my community chimed in with, "It's been so long since we've seen dolphins in the river..."
I kinda lost interest when the crabber started talking about the bridge/tunnel blocking water flow into the bay... It was built in 1960. The issues would have started THAT YEAR if it had anything to do with it (it doesn't).
The chicken farmer who thinks "they put arsenic and heavy metals in the chicken feed" and it gets into the water supply?
Test it.
NO ONE PUTS ARSENIC OR HEAVY METALS INTO CHICKEN FEED. Why would they pay extra for those ingredients and then not list them on the packaging?!?! Right. They wouldn't.
Go to the feed shop. A bag of chicken feed is $20. Send off a sample and get it tested.
When people say anything about heavy metals being in something, ask them WHICH heavy metals and the story stutters to a halt.
"WHICH toxins does the lavender oil draw out?" (through your waterproof skin)
This makes me sick. How did we get to this point??
MORALITY EXISTS IN THE WORLD! - I always wanted to be that, when I was a kid
This problem has been around for years. I lived there, grew up with the bay even. Thanks to the run off, boaters dumping their waste, and over fishing soon it will be dead.
Hi I just made a video of this one but clean if anyone wants to use it
I gave credit to tj
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Haha funny how THE BAY (the horror movie) on the Chesapeake Bay, just got released in France and that i just came back from watching it aha...
Good job!
volume is too low. can't hear it
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They won’t stop fishing them out. Till it’s all gone . Blame everyone else but themselves
I cannot comment on the CO OP, but the overall message in this film is that we have to protect the bay for more than just our planet's health. But that there are many people's livelihoods at stake.
So I says to them, I says, eff this Templar, masonic, shite, whats with all the new school crap, and why is it all evil? its immature, the real knights were never evil, you only become a knight if youre a really good person, like a paladin... this must happen every once in a while, but we must remember knights, are mostly good, and in these days, they don't even need to use swords, or weapons at all, see through the distorted mirrors! we're some kind of knights of something, like joan of arc...
If everyone adopted a whole-foods, plant-based diet and this unsustainable, polluting agriculture and farm animal raising were to be extinct, we could greatly help to fix this issue. World hunger could be solved as the crops for animal feed could be our own and water and land preservation would be drastically increased. All it takes is people getting over themselves and realizing that WE are the problem, and we must find the source of these issues to actually stop them from happening, if we want to continue to live as a species.
I'm sick of listening to these guys cry.They crab all summer and then dredge the female crabs all winter. They scrape the bay's grass flats for peelers and soft crabs. They've resisted regulation for years and refuse to join a CO OP to get fair price for the crabs. In addition; whenever the DNR starts a oyster bar development program they sneak in at night and steal the oysters with illegal dredges. Pollution is a problem but they have shot themselves in the foot for years.
This is a film on the Maryland crabbers, the Virginia crabbers are the one's who dredge and scrape the bottom of the bay. It is illegal in Maryland to do so. Also, "they" who steal are not the crabbers who do this for their living. It is people from the outside, most often people on luxury boats. (At least from what DNR has reported) The many crabbers who I have interviewed shared the same issues, which are pollution, illegal fishing, and lack of enforcement on the illegal activity.