Object Name:
Photograph
Description of Object:
A worker uses a lift to load shells into the back of a truck behind McNasby's.
About the Object:
Shuckers at McNasby could accumulate discarded shell over two stories tall in just 3 short days. Discarded shell was often sold back to the City of Annapolis to be used for paving roads, building structures, and more.
More Information:
As the oyster populations in the Bay continued to decline, state programs would work with watermen to replinish and replant oyster beds with discarded shell. Oysters are broadcast spawners meaning that sperm and egg meet in the water column and the resulting larvae attach to shell. Without replinshing shell on oyster reefs, larvae have limited surfaces on which to grow.
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