SF BAY Oyster Culture

Note the following Quotes from the chart of old. 

"All this part Shallow and interspersed with beds of dead Oyster shells" and "Oyster Banks, dry at low water"

This Map From 1827 shows about 1/3 of San Francisco Bay to be covered in Oysters. Where did they go?

• Dredged to shore up Alameda and build the Oakland Airport. 
• Shell mounds leveled for the Ikea Parking Lot and Emeryville Dog Track. 
• 55 football fields of Oyster shell went to pave Market St. in San Francisco.  
• The list is ongoing, a decimation of a critical ecosystem building block species the Oyster.

Before any bridges where built, you can see that even Alameida is a wetland, it's clear that human involvement is the cause 

as even the Indigenous People had degraded the Oyster Reef Ecology for food at this early point in history.

Consider the Oyster...

Joe Rueter

Oyster Culture Foundation