American shad just couldn’t get a break this spring in their efforts to repopulate the Susquehanna River. Read Story
A survey that historically has guided blue crab management in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries shows the population has dipped by nearly… Read Story
Oysters are filter feeders that can help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, right? Many have seen the various web videos showing a dozen or so bival… Read Story
Amid the coronavirus outbreak that sidelined almost all other field work this spring, a handful of Maryland biologists were dispatched to the … Read Story
Striped bass that stay year-round in the Chesapeake Bay are dying at nearly twice the rate of those that migrate each year to the Atlantic Oce… Read Story
By this time in a typical year, the main fish lift at Conowingo Dam would be busy hoisting thousands of fish daily over the 94-foot high barri… Read Story
When event planners huddled last fall at the Baltimore Convention Center for a workshop on sustainable conferences, they chowed down on locall… Read Story
The purse net fishing season for Atlantic menhaden kicked off May 4 in Virginia, but with a much-reduced limit on how many of the commercially… Read Story
He was known by a number in life. In death, he became a statistic. Read Story
One of the longest-running scientific investigations of the Chesapeake Bay is in danger of shutting down permanently. Read Story
Crab season is off to a slow and foreboding start around the Chesapeake Bay, with many crabmeat processors crippled by an inability to import … Read Story
The coronavirus pandemic is delaying oyster restoration efforts in Maryland this spring but so far has not impacted projects planned in Virgin… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay’s seafood industry has been especially hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as buyers dry up for oysters and prices plumme… Read Story
Watermen have no restaurants that can buy their catches. Help for farmers who want to install runoff controls has been sharply curtailed. Stre… Read Story
Responding to employers’ calls, including those of crab meat processing companies in Virginia and Maryland, the federal government announced M… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay and other environmental issues had more floor time — and legislative changes — than they have in years during Virginia’s 60… Read Story
Maryland and Virginia seafood industry leaders say they won’t have enough workers to process crabs this season unless the federal government o… Read Story
Oyster reef construction in Maryland’s Tred Avon River, held up since 2018 by a federal funding drought, could resume by year’s end. The U.S. … Read Story
The Conowingo Dam controversy isn’t settled just yet. Read Story
Anglers in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries will be limited to landing just one striped bass a day under new rules approved this week by… Read Story
Kyle Wood hauled the metal cage up from its resting place at the bottom of the Patuxent River in Maryland. Read Story
Overriding a veto by Gov. Larry Hogan, Maryland lawmakers enacted legislation Thursday requiring a more consensus-based approach to managing t… Read Story
Smallmouth bass, a leaping delight for anglers, continue to be hounded by mysterious disappearances, low survival rates, gaudy open sores and … Read Story
Anglers who live for hooking a feisty striped bass are going to have fewer chances to do it in 2020 — and probably for at least a year or two … Read Story
It turns out there could be a price to pay for eating all those “jimmies.” Scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have fo… Read Story
Maryland and Virginia lawmakers are gearing up for renewed debate in the coming weeks over renewable energy and how their states should deal w… Read Story
Virginia faces a threatened shutdown of its large commercial fishery for Atlantic menhaden after federal officials found the state had allowed… Read Story
It’s easy to demonstrate the filtering prowess of oysters by placing them in a small aquarium and filling it with algae-clouded water. Within … Read Story
Striped bass, whose population has been in decline for a decade and a half, suffered from another poor year of reproduction in Maryland, thoug… Read Story
When Wolfgang Vogelbein peered at striped bass sores through a microscope 22 years ago, he knew he was looking at something very different tha… Read Story
Acting to stem serious declines in the striped bass population, East Coast fishery managers have ordered an 18% harvest reduction for the comi… Read Story
Note: This article was updated on Nov. 1, 2019, to include more information about the commission's vote and its possible consequences. Read Story
Ryan Hoover teaches sculpture making at the Maryland Institute College of Art. So, why is he developing a product that could help oysters grow… Read Story
The rains have finally let up, but they’ve dealt a serious blow to the Chesapeake Bay’s oysters — and to the people who make a living harvesti… Read Story
Just a few miles from where they were first discovered in 1842, about 100 globally rare Chesapeake logperch, raised in captivity, were release… Read Story
About 100 days a year, you will find Michael Garrigan by himself with a fly rod, sneaking along small mountain streams hoping to catch and hol… Read Story
When Tom Perry set out to start an oyster farm at the age of 26, he wasn’t interested in doing it the easy way. Read Story
Maryland officials placed new restrictions Monday on harvesting wild oysters this fall and winter but dropped a plan to shorten the season tha… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay’s oysters already have plenty of challenges to deal with — nutrient and sediment pollution, parasitic diseases and harvest … Read Story
A year ago, Pennsylvania’s shad hatchery — the largest in the Chesapeake Bay watershed — was spared the budget-cutting ax. But it still took a… Read Story
Acting to curtail overfishing, Maryland natural resources officials proposed new oyster harvest restrictions Monday night that they said could… Read Story
“Nest builder, nest builder, build me a nest,” Eugene Maurakis hummed unselfconsciously, replacing the lyrics of a familiar Fiddler on the Roo… Read Story
Maryland’s Bloede Dam is no more. Fish and people alike have wasted little time taking advantage of the newly liberated 8.4-mile stretch of th… Read Story
Maryland watermen face potential cutbacks in their wild Chesapeake Bay oyster harvest starting this fall, as the state eyes new regulations ai… Read Story
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission approved a set of emergency measures Aug. 27 to help protect the struggling striped bass population i… Read Story
Updated on Aug. 28, 2019 to reflect the vote of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. Read Story
Portions of the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grass meadows appear to be headed for steep declines this year, a delayed response to the torrenti… Read Story
At the beginning of July, media across Maryland delivered good news for those planning a traditional feast of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs on Ind… Read Story
As the story goes, the first person to spot a trout rising in Paint Branch in the 1970s — a Maryland stream that already passed under a half-d… Read Story
East Coast fishery managers are taking comments on a range of options that would slash striped bass harvests by 18% compared with 2017 levels … Read Story