[IndispensableDestiny]

When Captain John Smith sailed and mapped the Chesapeake from 1607 to 1609, he reported multitudes of striped bass. He wrote that they ate the heads and salted the bodies in barrels.

Fish cheeks are awesome.

[Jamestown1630]

I remember from a James Michener book that the Chesapeake, in the early years of European discovery, is estimated to have produced enough food in it to feed an enormous percentage of the (then) entire world.

The Bay had been declining in recent decades, but seems to be improving now.