SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Without fish people would go hungry.
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Maryland is located along Chesapeake Bay, which has fish.
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Fishing wasn’t really important then, furs were more important.
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Colonists would give the fish as a Valentin’es gift.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Present-day Maryland and Virginia surround Chesapeake Bay. This region was a good place to begin colonizing because the Bay is one of America’s largest estuaries, and once had a coastline of over 3, 000 miles. Being deep, it was always navigable by those settling and trading there.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem impacts the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It’s wetlands protect communities from extreme weather such as erosion, flood waters and storm surges. And the trees that sprawl from the Bay shores and forests cool our communities.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the Atlantic Ocean, the country’s largest estuary (the Chesapeake Bay), and countless streams, rivers, inlets, and marshlands, Maryland is a sport fisherman’s paradise.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is a source for both commercial and recreational harvest. Blue crab, oysters, and striped bass are some of the Chesapeake’s treasured species. The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are also home to species that people do not harvest for food, including the endangered Atlantic sturgeon.