Editing Cumberland County, New Jersey (section)

===Maritime history===
In addition to agriculture and glassware, Cumberland County is known for its maritime industries. Its main maritime export was oysters until the 1950s when disease destroyed the oyster population.<ref>{{cite web |title=VIMS study uncovers new cause for intensification of oyster disease |website=Virginia Institute of Marine Science |language=en |url=https://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/2021/dermo_intensification.php |access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref> With the oyster industry came shipbuilding in 1780.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCay |first=Bonnie J. |title=Oyster Wars and the Public Trust |date=March 1, 1998 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-4499-8 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1prss4r |jstor=j.ctv1prss4r |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1prss4r}}</ref> Later, the industrial revolution and railroad development increased the number of ships and the types of ships being made. By the late 19th century, ships switched from the sloop model to the schooner to be more useful for oystering.<ref>{{Citation |title=Riparian Rights and Oyster Wars on the Delaware Bay |date=March 1, 1998 |work=Oyster Wars and the Public Trust |pages=116–130 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1prss4r.19 |jstor=j.ctv1prss4r |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1prss4r |access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref>

Whaling was also an industry in Cumberland County until 1775 when settlers turned to livestock, farming, and trapping.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |author=Sebold, Kimberly R. |title=Historic themes and resources within the New Jersey coastal heritage trail: southern New Jersey and the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem counties |date=1991 |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record |oclc=23766401 |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/23766401}}</ref> Caviar was a short-lived industry in the area from the 1860s to 1925, when sturgeon had been overfished.<ref name=":2" /> There are 19th and 20th century maritime related artifacts such as ship models, building plans, tools, and rigging equipment at the John Dubois Maritime Museum in [[Bridgeton, New Jersey|Bridgeton]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The John DuBois Maritime Museum |website=Cumberland County Historical Society |language=en-US |url=https://cchistsoc.org/museums-hours/the-john-dubois-maritime-museum/ |access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref>