On May 1, 2012, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the official opening of the Rodgers Tavern pier and floating dock. In attendence were officials and residents from Perryville, Port Deposit and Havre de Grace. The Rodgers Tavern pier and floating dock are located behind Rodgers Tavern at 259 Broad Street, Perryville in Cecil [...]
The Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP), with its coalition of partners, recently announced the start of their 2012 Chesapeake Bay oyster planting season and the first plantings aimed at fulfilling the goals of President Obama’s Executive Order to restore oyster habitat and populations in 20 Bay tributaries by 2025. Over the last decade, Maryland’s oyster partners [...]
Jack G. Travelstead was recently named as commissioner of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. Mr. Travelstead has served with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission since 1981. He has been chief of the Fisheries Management Division since 1984, and deputy commissioner since 2006. Mr. Travelstead was appointed acting commissioner by Governor McDonnell on March 22, 2012, [...]
For the 2012 fishing season, Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is easing regulations for summer flounder. The new regulations are designed to allow recreational anglers improved opportunities to harvest fish while protecting fish populations. “Because Maryland anglers have remained under the summer flounder target harvest levels for the past two years, we are able [...]
Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay spring striped bass season opens at 5 a.m. on Saturday, April 21 with a one fish per person, per day limit and a minimum size of 28 inches through May 15. Prior to May 16, Anglers may only fish for Chesapeake Bay striped bass from Brewerton Channel to the Virginia line (including [...]
Fifteen of the 37 creeks, rivers and sections of the Chesapeake Bay recently added to Maryland’s dirty water list are polluted because of runoff from urban and suburban areas, according to a review of the report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF). Maryland and other states are required to test tidal and fresh water for [...]
In March, the Chesapeake Bay Trust presented a $29,887 grant to Living Classrooms Foundation to support their environmental education programs at the Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center, an urban nature center on the Patapsco River that serves the Brooklyn, Curtis Bay and Cherry Hill communities. Living Classrooms Foundation is a Baltimore-Washington based nonprofit organization that [...]
Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking for communities to help raise baby oysters for the 2012 season through the Marylanders Grow Oysters program. Last year, citizen volunteers raised more than 2 million new oysters that were planted in sanctuaries throughout Maryland waters. The Department is in search of local coordinators willing to organize [...]
In Maryland, proposed boating-related fee increases have sparked public outcry. After receiving feedback from stakeholders, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently proposed amendments to House Bill 1307 to substantially reduce the proposed cost of registering a boat in Maryland. Since 1965, the State’s 5 percent excise tax on vessels has served as the [...]
State and Federal fisheries managers recently identified blue and flathead catfish of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed as invasive, non-native species, and have begun developing strategies to mitigate their impact. Blue catfish are native to the Mississippi River Valley and were introduced to the James and Rappahannock Rivers in the 1970s. Since then, the fish have [...]
