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Fish Spills Renew Concerns About Menhaden Management
October 7, 2021
The latest of Omega Protein's 13 fish spills in Virginia since 2018, is an important reminder of the need to better manage the Chesapeake Bay's menhaden population.
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400,000 Dead Fish Spilled in Hampton Roads Waters by Omega Protein
September 10, 2021
This week Omega Protein, a Canadian owned seafood company, spilled more than 400,000 dead menhaden fish into Hampton Roads waters, according to a Sept. 8 letter by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. The fish spilled during two separate incidents this week.
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Freshwater Mussels: Wild, Wonderful, and Waning
August 16, 2021
Carolina Slabshells, Tidewater Muckets, Green Floaters—an amazing diversity of freshwater mussels call the rivers and streams of the Bay watershed home. But we’re losing species faster than we can understand them.
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"Livers of Our Rivers" Could Help Clean Up Pennsylvania Waters
July 29, 2021
As a new report details the importance of restoring declining populations of freshwater mussels within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, multiple programs in Pennsylvania are working to do just that.
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Report: Freshwater Mussels Unsung Heroes at Risk in Chesapeake Bay Watershed
July 29, 2021
Freshwater mussels play an amazing yet little-known role in healthy rivers and streams. As their numbers dramatically decline, we must now focus on restoring mussel populations, according to a report issued this week.
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Report: Freshwater Mussels Unsung Heroes at Risk in Chesapeake Bay Watershed
July 29, 2021
Freshwater mussels play an amazing yet little-known role in healthy rivers and streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Maryland recently began several pilot restoration projects to monitor and augment mussel populations in the Bay watershed.
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Partnership Adds 78 Oyster Reef Balls off Coast of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
July 29, 2021
CBF staff and project partners added 78 reef balls to the Maryland Artificial Reef Initiative site located in the Herring Bay oyster sanctuary. The oyster reef balls were placed about two miles offshore in a sanctuary protected from oyster harvesting.
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CBF Cheers House Committee Push to Increase Oyster Restoration Funds in Fiscal 2022
July 16, 2021
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) welcomed the House Appropriations Committee’s approval today, 33-24 of a fiscal year 2022 budget for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that would explicitly dedicate funds next year to on-going large-scale oyster restoration work in Maryland and Virginia.
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Protect Mussels Too
July 1, 2021
Nearly half of all mussel species face extinction, threatened by pollution and disease.
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Blue Crabs: How are They Doing?
June 23, 2021
Long-term, blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are doing better than they were. But a record low number of juvenile crabs this year raises the need for caution. Chris Moore, CBF's Senior Regional Ecosystem Scientist, breaks down the numbers and what they mean.
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation Issues Recommendations for Maryland Oyster Regulations
June 22, 2021
In comments filed with Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is asking the state to take stronger action to end oyster overfishing and develop a rebuilding plan for areas of the Bay where the oyster population has declined to the lowest levels on record.
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CBF Statement on 2021 Maryland Oyster Stock Assessment Update
June 9, 2021
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) presented preliminary information Tuesday evening from the 2021 oyster stock assessment update indicating the market-size oyster population in Maryland rose slightly, while spat estimates increased to the highest level in the previous 20 years.
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Blue Crab Survey Results Show ‘Mixed Bag’
May 21, 2021
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 population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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Healthy Fishing Along the Anacostia
May 5, 2021
Cultivating healthy anglers and stewards of our waters in the Latino community.
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Save the Bay News: Saving Fish and Fisheries
March 19, 2021
Our monthly roundup of engaging and educational content for you to enjoy at home. This month, we look at how decades of overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and now climate change, have put many species in trouble.
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Global Pandemic or Not, We Won’t Stop Putting Oysters in the Bay
March 17, 2021
In the face of unprecedented challenges, we worked with partners to complete one of the world’s largest oyster restoration projects in the Little Choptank River.
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Millions of Anglers and Trout Brought Together in the Time of COVID
March 15, 2021
Last year was unlike any other for most things in life. The trout fishing season in Pennsylvania was no different.
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A Lost River Restored
March 14, 2021
The Eastern Branch of Hampton Roads' Elizabeth River, sometimes called the “lost branch,” is the second tributary in Virginia to reach its oyster restoration milestones.
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Now's the Time to Correct Blue Catfish Policy
March 10, 2021
Invasive blue catfish undergo an expensive and cumbersome inspection process that should be revised to enable Chesapeake Bay watermen to grow the blue catfish fishery.
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Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 101
March 3, 2021
An introduction and what you need to know about this influential fishery management body and how it affects the Chesapeake Bay and some of our favorite fish.
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CBF Adds 14 Million Oysters to Chesapeake Bay in Maryland in 2020
February 11, 2021
CBF continued its long-term push to restore oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay by adding more than 14 million oysters in Maryland waters during 2020’s pandemic-affected season.
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After Major Striped Bass Decline, ASMFC Opens Fishery Plan to Comment
February 3, 2021
In another step towards rebuilding the striped bass population, an Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) panel will open the Public Information Document for Amendment 7 for public comment.
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Little Fish, Big Success
December 15, 2020
Virginia fisheries advocate John Bello was part of a team that advocated for the scientific management of the Bay’s important menhaden.
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Oyster to the People
December 11, 2020
Professional “Oyster Ninja” Gardner Douglas helps buoy the oyster industry from his home base in District Heights, Maryland.
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VMRC Approves Menhaden Limits Developed to Support Their Important Role in the Food Chain
December 8, 2020
Today the Virginia Marine Resources Commission reduced Virginia’s menhaden harvest by 10 percent to comply with the newly adopted menhaden fishery quota from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.
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