Report: More Blue Crabs in Chesapeake Bay This Year
A report from the Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee shows the blue crab population in the bay has grown.
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A report from the Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee shows the blue crab population in the bay has grown.
The Chesapeake Bay has been showing major signs of improvement this year.
Back where they belong after starting life in a lab. Tens of thousands of new oysters have been planted in bay waters, thanks to human help.
Twenty-three people were rescued from a boat southwest of Bloodsworth Island in the lower Chesapeake Bay Wednesday afternoon.
A report by environmental scientists says the health of the Chesapeake Bay has improved as efforts to produce runoff from land continue.
Underwater grass beds in the Chesapeake Bay, in decline for decades, are making a strong comeback.
A report says islanders in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay could be among the first "climate change refugees" in the continental United States.
Hard barriers to stop erosion may be hard on the bay.
The Maryland Natural Resources Police say they will continue their search on Monday for a missing boater in the Chesapeake Bay.
It may have happened 22,000 years ago, but the last ice age isn't done with Maryland yet.
Regional leaders and federal officials are getting together to talk about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.
Could parts of Maryland be underwater in the next few years? Some scientists warn the state is one of the most vulnerable to climate change, with sea levels rising rapidly, especially in the Chesapeake Bay.
A U.S. appeals court on Monday approved a federal plan to limit pollution in the Chesapeake Bay despite objections from farmers, builders and others who accused the Environmental Protection Agency of a power grab.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is suing Virginia water protection officials to require large livestock operations to fence off rivers and streams from their animals.
HonFest's 1st Annual Oyster Shucking Competition will give contestants a good time while raising awareness for oyster preservation in the Chesapeake Bay.
Authorities say a 37-year-man has died in a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay off Calvert County.
Algae blooms, some of them toxic, are increasing in the Chesapeake.
After a decline the past two years, the bay's crab population is again growing in the right direction.
A week ago, hundreds of trucks were being loaded with salt. When heavy snows came the next day, that salt hit the roads.
What to do about the rain? Lawmakers in Annapolis are debating whether the state should continue to collect that controversial stormwater fee, known as the "rain tax."
Fishing lands a man in federal prison. In this case, it's 92 tons of illegally caught rockfish worth half a million dollars.
Maryland lawmakers are targeting phosphorous pollution of the Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland's 19th annual Polar Bear Plunge is going on as scheduled despite the winter storm that moved through the area.
Millions of federal dollars are coming to Maryland and they're going right into the ground.
It averages out to a D+: the same grade the last time the bay's health was measured in 2012.
