Really pathetic

[Slraep]

Hey Slraep, shame you're not running for prez, I like your style We need a "nice,timid kid" like you in office

Hi Julie,

That's funny. Oh my, thanks, no, not me as prez. King Midas would be perfect, though.

Slraep

 

[Nathan Reed]

Very nice Slraep, enjoy your booby traps. On a duller note, couldn't they simply cover the mussel beds with a net, that when tampered with, sounded an alarm at the police station. Or have the beds watched?

 

[Slraep]

Here's a link to another thread with an earlier article about the pearly mussels of the River Esk and their plight.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/pearl-books-resources/2136-river-esks-pearly-mussels.html

Slraep

 

[pattye]

Only 200??? It's a wonder they were discovered before they all died.

 

[Slraep]

Only 200??? It's a wonder they were discovered before they all died.

Hi Pattye,

I think there is a North River Esk and a South River Esk. The South River Esk is in Scotland. But both have almost no pearly mussels left.

The article below is a reprint of pearl fishing in the South River Esk in 1942. I bet they couldn't imagine what it would be like now!

http://www.brechinadvertiser.co.uk/down-memory-lane/A-day-with-the-pearl.3023091.jp

Slraep

 

[Slraep]

About the pearly mussel in question--- Margaritifera margaritifera.

Here's a fairly old, but very good article. According to it, just a little over 10 years ago, in 1996, things were looking optimistic for the mussels of the South River Esk. What a difference today.

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/species.asp?FeatureIntCode=S1029

Slraep

 

[pattye]

I think it must have been similar to how many of the US rivers were fished out. I don't remember reading anything so detailed as that article, but that it was often a summer's weekend activity for the family, I think before the 40's, though.

 

[Slraep]

I remember reading an old cook book by M.F.K. Fisher, a famous foodie, where she writes about the extrordinary abundance of shellfish and other seafood from Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US. She could never have imagined what it is like now. A big toxic dump of an estuary with even the crab having a had time surviving. She would have been incredulous. It was not that long ago.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/bal-md.bay29oct29,0,6795363.story

Slraep