I fully support individual efforts to reduce our impact on the bay, but the things we do are far outweighed by the problems inherent to the bay that are bigger than us. Sounds like Marty and I are on the same page.
Everyone will have to sacrifice something to improve the bay's health, but as with most problems of this scale, somebody will have to sacrifice more than the rest.
Skip might be right about the oysters (Well scientifically speaking I think he's on the money.) So the people sacrificing more would be the oystermen of the bay. I can give up eating oysters easily enough, as much as I love them though. But what are we really willing to give up as an incentive to make the oystermen agree to a moratorium? Tax incentives? State sponsored jobs reconstructing the oyster beds with their now dormant boats?
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