In August, the NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO–OPS) released its enhanced suite of high tide flooding products including the 2023 Annual High Tide Flooding Outlook and the new Monthly High Tide Flooding Outlook. Common in the … Continued
2022 surveys of juvenile striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay watershed yielded mixed results. Conducted by biologists in Maryland and Virginia, the surveys included counts of juvenile striped bass and other species in waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland Striped Bass … Continued
A new study of 166 estuaries on all three U.S. continental coastlines, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, is the first to quantify and compare how rapid sea-level rise will drive landward migration of coastal wetlands on the Pacific, Atlantic, … Continued
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently announced a new northern snakehead tagging program, held in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The tagging program will help monitor invasive northern snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay and … Continued
Blue Crabs The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) recently announced the results of the 2022 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey. The annual cooperative survey estimates the number of blue crabs in … Continued