Table 1. Continental margins showing sequential exploitation of oyster populations.

Location	Species exploited	Urban center	Nearest fishery	Start of fishery1	Collapse of fishery1	Most distant fishery	Start of fishery2	Collapse of fishery2
Eastern North America	C. virginica	New York	Hudson River	1600s	Early 1800s	Texas	1860s	late 1900s?
Western North America	O. conchaphila	San Francisco	San Francisco Bay	1840s	1850s	Puget Sound	1851	1890-1920
Eastern Australia	S. glomerata	Sydney	Botany Bay	1788	1860-1870	Great Sandy Strait	1880s	1900-1910

1, Nearest fishery to urban center; 2, farthest fishery from urban center.