Governor Hogan Awards $22M For Chesapeake Bay Restoration Projects
Governor Larry Hogan announced the awarding of $22 million to 25 ecological restoration projects geared toward improving the water quality and habitat of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Governor Larry Hogan announced the awarding of $22 million to 25 ecological restoration projects geared toward improving the water quality and habitat of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Chesapeake Bay Program released the 2021 Blue Crab Advisory Report and it found that the blue crab population is not being overfished and is not depleted.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the female hard crab catch limits for commercial crabbers. The rules will apply in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries.
The health of the Chesapeake Bay improved to a grade of C in 2020 — up from a C-minus in 2019, according to an annual report card by scientists released Tuesday.
The market-size oyster population in Maryland rose slightly over the past year, and spat estimates increased to the highest level in the previous 20 years, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' 2021 Oyster Stock Assessment Update released Tuesday.
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission and Maryland Department of Natural Resources released the results of the 2021 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey, an annual estimate of the blue crab population in and around the Chesapeake Bay.
Four people were rescued just south of the Bay Bridge after their boat capsized Wednesday evening, Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
It's your chance to weigh in and even share some frustrations about the Bay Bridge and a possible third span.
They act as nature's filter. Oysters, helping pump life back into the Chesapeake Bay.
Forty four pounds of cocaine was seized from a freighter anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, federal officials said Thursday.
The Coast Guard rescued a 57 year-old man who was reportedly suffering mild hypothermia symptoms, after his sailboat was hit by severe weather around three miles southwest of Wolf Trap Light in the Chesapeake Bay on Friday.
For the past five decades, photographer Bill Portlock has captured beautiful images of the Chesapeake all while educating those in the area about the importance of the Bay.
For the past five decades, photographer Bill Portlock has captured beautiful images of the Chesapeake all while educating those in the area about the importance of the Bay.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation said Thursday it added more than 14 million oysters to Maryland's waters last year despite the pandemic.
The nation's largest estuary is still getting a D+ grade for its overall health, according to a report released Tuesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Crews have suspended their search for a driver after a truck crashed off a bridge and into the Chesapeake Bay in southern Virginia on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The COVID-19 pandemic could lead to an oyster shortage in the Chesapeake Bay, but the Shell Recycling Alliance is hoping to change that.
Dead-zone conditions in the Chesapeake Bay were "considerably less" in 2020 than in previous years, thanks in part to cool temperatures, a new report concluded.
A Maryland man has completed his a trip across the Chesapeake Bay on a paddleboard!
The funding is a part of a $2.2 million award for 18 environmental education projects throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Two Maryland man are working to raise awareness about the importance of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.
The attorneys general of Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware and Virginia have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of not requiring Pennsylvania and New York to develop sufficient plans to reduce Chesapeake Bay pollution.
Multiple waterspouts were reported in the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland on Wednesday.
Maryland and Virginia, two of the three states that make up 90 percent of the watershed are on target to reach their goals. The third, Pennsylvania, isn't faring as well.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the health of the nation's largest estuary is continuing to improve. But it says Pennsylvania still isn't doing enough to reduce the amount of pollution that's flowing into the bay from the state.
