I remember those days as well, crabbing with my Dad. Grew up off the Magothy too. Now, I work for the Oyster Recovery Partnership (www.oysterrecovery.org) in Annapolis, MD to try and restore oysters, a "keystone" species which filters our waters and provides habitat for other important marine life such as blue crabs. Check out this nonprofit and tell others!

Unfortunately the old farts depleted the oysters and polluted the waterways, but when us young folks try to restore it, they just piss and moan about wasting taxpayer dollars while they collect their social security welfare, which won't be left for us young folks too

I live in Shore Acres near Adams Point on the Magothy. When I was 15 there was still thick sea grasses in front of our house and the water was very clear in 10 feet. We used to push net for crab and bushel baskets floating in inner tubes were tied to a rope tied around our waists to put them in. There was an artesian spring well on our property contaminated in the early 1980s. We had a 20 foot beach in front as well. That has all eroded since the late 1970s early 80s when the housing boom hit the watershed. Heather is absolutely correct. Oysters and other bivalves filter the water and without them keeping the water clear for sunlight to produce sea grasses to produce oxygen there is little hope. The entire ecosystem is broken in just my lifetime.

When I was a little kid, we could get a hand-picked pound of crab meat from Haas on Deep Creek for $1.25. When my mom was a little kid there weren't even any roads down here. Only one long red clay trail that would become Shore Acres Road.