What Needs to Be Done to Restore The Bay? The Inconvenient Truths of Bay Restoration

Posted by chris on February 27, 2009

Dr. Gerald Winegrad presents “What Needs to Be Done to Restore The Bay? The Inconvenient Truths of Bay Restoration”

Tuesday, March 24th, at 6:30 p.m

The presentation will be at the Prince Frederick Public Library, Rooms 1-3. The event is hosted by The Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust.

Gerald W. Winegrad will make a presentation and lead a discussion on the decline of the Chesapeake Bay and what needs to be done to restore this great estuary. He will outline why the Bay is in serious trouble after 25 years of recovery efforts under the Bay Program and the expenditure of billions of dollars. Collapsed fisheries, including oysters and shad, and the crab fishery’s serious decline are among many signs of the ecological collapse as Southern Maryland’s thriving seafood industry has been reduced to a remnant of the 1950’s.

The renowned Bay scholar and leader will discuss how we have so poisoned our waters that reports abound of serious infections in humans who come in contact with Bay waters. These reports are widespread-from the Severn to the Nanticoke rivers, and beyond. Rockfish, one of the few success stories in the recovery of living resources, have been turning up with lesions from a chronic wasting disease, which is transmittable to humans. Catfish in the South River have cancerous lesions and male bass from the Potomac are turning up with female egg sacs. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »