A 10-year study provides the first quantitative evidence on a bay-wide scale that low-oxygen "dead zones" are ... oxygen in Chesapeake Bay can reduce the number and catch rates of demersal fish ...

The latest report on the health of the Chesapeake Bay indicating potential problems for businesses on the water. Researchers ...

The latest report on the health of the Chesapeake Bay indicates potential problems for businesses on the water. Researchers ...

At the heart of every community is an essential resource needed by all people and wildlife, writes Kristin Reilly: clean ...

Chesapeake Bay is at a turning point. Once severely polluted, the bay has seen major improvements in recent years. But ...

Blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay took a sizable hit in 2025, marking a need for more cautious harvest regulations, ...

calls them the most iconic species in the Chesapeake Bay. Whether you're fishing, dining out or having a beach day, you've likely come into contact with a blue crab. "The iconic nature of blue ...

Chesapeake Bay blue crab populations fell again, hitting the second-lowest number since Virginia and Maryland marine scientists began counting in 1990, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources ...

The biggest challenge to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay is figuring out where the nutrients that fuel summertime dead zones come from — and a new approach to pollution control is stressing ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY, Md. - There are more oysters in the Chesapeake ... that's gone into place,” said Lynn Fegley, director of Fishing and Boating Services at Maryland DNR. Much of the progress ...

"Striped bass, a common recreational and commercial fishing species, typically spawn in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Spawning goes down if the water temperatures are too high." ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation resumed oyster restoration efforts near the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse for the first time in nearly a year. More than 31,000 oysters were planted ...