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These items are referred to as “ Basic Items“.
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Forney and Trish Vernon founded the Cape Gazette, a community newspaper serving eastern Sussex County, in 1993, where he served as publisher until 2020. He moved to Lewes, Delaware in 1975 with his wife Becky where they lived for 45 years, raising their family and enjoying the saltwater life. After graduating Oberlin College, he returned to the Shore where he wrote for the Queen Anne’s Record Observer, the Bay Times, the Star Democrat, and the Watermen’s Gazette. Demand is high because of the holiday weekend so retail bushel prices remain in the $250 to $350 range, but may start to ease down before the run back up to the Fourth of July.ĭennis Forney grew up on the Chester River in Chestertown. In the meantime, word along the waterfront indicates that crabs are starting to work their way up the Bay and catches are improving. We’re still trying to get back to the first floor. Judy said while he considers this year’s 330,000 bushels harvested a solid year, especially compared to the last three, he said that still doesn’t compare to the million to a million and a half bushels harvested per year in the 1980s. Matt Pepper baits his trotline wirth razor clams after bringing in his catch this week in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Just four years ago, for the 2017-2018 season, there were only 822 surcharges paid.” That speaks to the abundance of oysters out there. The number of people oystering didn’t go up that much but the number of oysters harvested increased significantly. “We track those to see how many watermen are oystering. Those are good signs for the future.”Īlso notable to Judy was the fact that the number of oyster surcharges – the $300 fee charged to watermen who want to add commercial oystering to their Tidal Fishing License – was not up significantly from the year before. And there are still many market oysters and smalls on the bars. The daily catch limit was being caught early for most of the season, well before curfew. “We saw strong harvests all season, when there was market. For the 2020-2021 season when Judy said the average price dropped to more in the vicinity of $30 per bushel, the estimated landing value was about $9,900,000. The math shows that at an average price of $40 per bushel in the 2019-2020 season and 270,000 bushels caught, the total landings that year at the docks were worth $10,800,000 dollars. The downside of the news is that restaurant closures due to the coronavirus resulted in lower prices to the watermen than in the previous year. But the middle and lower bay were fairly strong.” “Eastern Bay wasn’t so good nor was the upper Bay and the Anne Arundel shore area. Judy said the good spat sets weren’t universal throughout the Bay.
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Oyster spat are the tiny little oysters that attach themselves to larger oyster shells and eventually grow themselves to marketable oysters. Hand tongers work the Deep Neck Bar in Broad Creek last winter.