The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office is funding seven projects that seek to quantify the benefits that restored oyster reefs provide to the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Projects include: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: “Integrated Assessment of Oyster Reef Ecosystem … Continued
A new Baltimore Harbor Water Alert website provides water-quality data for Baltimore’s Harbor, rivers and streams in an interactive mapping format. Water-quality data are presented in near real-time with assessment based upon State and Federal standards for ecological and human … Continued
A new website and smartphone app will help Maryland-area anglers collect and share data about Chesapeake Bay sport fish. Chesapeake Catch is a project led by Maryland-area anglers to gather voluntary information from all anglers to better inform themselves and … Continued
The reservoir behind the Conowingo Dam is trapping smaller amounts of sediment and has essentially reached its limit to trap in the long term, according to a Lower Susquehanna River Watershed Assessment. However, a large majority of the pollution to … Continued
Beginning in 2016, coastal states from Maine through Georgia will transition to conducting the Access Point Angler Intercept Survey (APAIS) to collect information on marine recreational fishing catch and effort data in their own waters, according to the Atlantic States … Continued