Kent Narrows Then and Now [4:19]

This slender channel between Kent Island and the Eastern Shore was once a seafood center where 14 busy seafood houses bought oysters and crabs from hundreds of watermen. Only one seafood house and one shipping house are still open, but a new Maryland Watermen's Monument has now gone up here to honor all the men and women who once worked these waters -- and the few dozen who still do.

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A Waterman and His Boat [0:38]

"As long as you don't get afraid and stick with the boat, she'll stand by you." (Art Daniels, Jr.)

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The Art of Oystering [2:09]

Dredging oysters under sail with Captain Art Daniels Jr. of Deal Island, Maryland.

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The Workboat Races of Deal Island [2:09]

Every Labor Day is race day on Deal Island. Watermen in skipjacks and workboats compete for trophies and glory. David Horseman of Chance gets to fire the starter's horn for the Workboat Docking Contest.

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Down on the Oyster Reefs [2:52]

A biologist dives into his work. Ken Paynter on the damage from heavy fishing and devastating disease epidemics.

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Following the Watermen- An Anthropologist Arrives on Deal Island [4:00]

Do the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay share similar values? A common culture? A collective worldview? Is their outlook rooted in their work, their sense of community, their sense of place? Anthropologist Michael Paolisso took those questions to Deal Island, an isolated enclave along Maryland's Eastern Shore. Here he talks about his work, and watermen Robert Daniels, Dickie Webster and Art Daniels talk about their lives.

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Rebuilding the Bay's Reefs [1:44]

At the Horn Point Environmental Lab, Don Meritt turns out seed oysters full of oyster spat, and Charlie Frentz of the Oyster Recovery Partnership plants them in Chesapeake Bay.

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Pfiesteria Update: An Enduring Debate

Scientists come up with conflicting evidence about the life cycle and fish-killing powers of the dinoflagellate called Pfiesteria piscicida. Features JoAnn Burkholder, Wayne Litaker, Wolfgang Vogelvein and Andrew Gordon.

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The Pfiesteria Files Trailer

When watermen find wounded fish along a lonely river in Maryland, they kick off a scientific debate and an environmental crisis focused on a mysterious microbe that may -- or may not -- cause sick fish and sick people. Watch the title sequence from this award-winning film.

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A Skipjack Goes Down [0:36]

The day Captain Daniels found his skipjack, City of Crisfield, drowned at the dock in Cambridge harbor.

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And Rises Again [2:01]

Sail rigger Rich Schofield and boat builder Mike Vlahovich go to work rebuilding the City of Crisfield.

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A (Re)Launch Party [3:00]

A skipjack goes down to the bay again - the first success in an ambitious project at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to restore the last working sail fleet in the country.

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The Boat Coming Alive [0:43]

The oldest oyster captain, Art Daniels Jr., remembers his first boyhood sail on his father's skipjack.

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A Chinese Oyster for the Chesapeake? [5:23]

Seafood growers and packers are calling for replanting the Chesapeake with oysters from China. But scientists have formed cautious and sometimes conflicting opinions about the promise and perils of planting non-natives. Can Crassotrea ariakensis revive the tidewater seafood economy? Can it create ecological benefits for the ecosystem? Here in their own words are an oyster packer, an oyster grower and two oyster scientists.

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Remembering the Old Anacostia [2:54]

Julius Lowry remembers earlier days on a cleaner river: swimming and cat fishing and hanging out along the river banks in Washington, DC. From "Endangered Species," a documentary by the Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofit environmental organization that puts the city's young people to work cleaning up the river.

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A Century of Skipjacks [0:59]

Since the 1890s watermen have been dredging oysters under sail on skipjacks - "two-sail bateaux" that were first built in dozens of small boatyards along the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia.

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The Case for Environmental Education [2:22]

When Adam Frederick taught high school biology he got his students into science by getting them out of the classroom - out into the woods and fields and streams where they could see biology at work. Environmental science leads to better scores in science, according to Frederick, now a Marine Science Educator with Maryland Sea Grant Extension. And it's a teaching tool that can be used across all disciplines.

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New Tools for the Oceanographer, New Discoveries for the Bay [6:40]

Oceanographer Bill Boicourt uses the Scanfish, an underwater flying wing, to document a new discovery in Chesapeake Bay: a Hydraulic Control Zone just north of the Rappahannock Shoals. Like a valve on a water faucet, the Hydraulic Control can regulate the flow of salty ocean water into the northern Bay. As the Scanfish glides up and down through the Bay, it can take tens of thousands of readings per hour, measuring salinity, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen and plankton.

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Finding Gold at the Bottom of the Bay [6:10]

A pioneer in estuarine paleoecology, Grace Brush has been charting the history of environmental change in the Chesapeake watershed. Her technique: dig up cores from the bottom of the Bay's rivers, marshes and mainstem. Her hypothesis: the sediment holds a history of ancient and recent events that altered the estuary. On May 6, 2004, Grace Brush became the first woman to be awarded the Mathias Medal for research that has a significant impact on public policy.

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The Longest Passage [5:51]

When a Maryland Bay pilot brings a big ship up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, he (or she) is making the longest single-pilot passage in America. When Captain Randy Bourgeois boards his ship, he is 8 miles from shore, 150 miles from Baltimore.

His job: guide a deep draft ship through a long, shallow estuary. And do it without incident, accident or environmental catastrophe.

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Northern Passage [1:47]

From Baltimore to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a short, tricky run: 40 miles with narrow channels and oncoming ship traffic.

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Problem-Solving Science Teaching [5:20]

Can students raise striped bass in their high school and middle school classrooms? Only if they can tackle and solve a slew of research questions and technical problems, ranging from water quality to food supply to fish disease. At South Carroll High School, science teacher Bob Foor-Hogue set up aquaculture projects for his students and the result was a pioneering, problem-solving approach to science education. Working with Foor-Hogue Sea Grant educators Adam Frederick and Jackie Takacs are now exporting his approach and their fish to other schools around the state.

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In Their Own Words [3:20]

Teachers have to learn before they can teach, and if they are going to teach aquaculture they have a lot to learn. Bob Foor-Hogue of South Carroll High School and Adam Frederick of Maryland Sea Grant Extension have been organizing summer workshops for teachers since 1998. They claim an aquaculture project is one of the best ways to get American students to plug into serious science. Here's what some of the teachers who plugged into the workshop have to say about the experience.

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Planting the New Anacostia [1:38]

The work and words of young volunteers with the Anacostia Watershed Society. Filmed for the Society by Todd Clark.

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