Efforts towards the recovery of Chesapeake Bay Atlantic sturgeon recently got a boost when NOAA Fisheries awarded a three-year, $1.75 million species recovery grant to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. … Continued
A reservior of high-salinity groundwater found more than 1,000 meters (0.6 mi.) deep under the Chesapeake Bay is actually remnant water from the Early Cretaceous North Atlantic Sea and is probably 100-145 million years old, according to U.S. Geological Survey … Continued
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently announced that the 2013 Striped Bass juvenile index is 5.8, higher than last year’s results of 0.9, but below the 60-year average of 11.7. The survey is conducted to track the reproductive success … Continued
In October, Governor Martin O’Malley announced that the State and its partners produced and planted a record number of native baby oysters (spat) in 2013. The University of Maryland Horn Point Lab Oyster Hatchery team in Cambridge set a new … Continued
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has released a new report entitled: Proceedings of a Workshop on American Eel Passage Technologies. The report summarizes the findings and recommendations of a July 2011 workshop that brought together over 120 biologists, engineers, … Continued