Two recent surveys of juvenile striped bass in waters of the Chesapeake Bay indicated mixed results for the bay wide stock. Conducted by biologists in Maryland and Virginia the surveys included counts of juvenile striped bass and other species in … Continued
The Chesapeake Bay score decreased in 2018, but maintained a C grade, according to the 2018 Chesapeake Bay Report Card issued by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). The decrease was due to extremely high precipitation last … Continued
The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) recently released its Biennial Report to Congress and is available to the public. The report describes how the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, a division within the Office of Habitat Conservation at NOAA Fisheries, leads … Continued
Results of the 2019 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey indicate that the Bay-wide blue crab population increased 60 percent from last year, to an estimated total population of 594 million crabs. The rise in adult abundance of blue crabs was … Continued
The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (CMC) recently unveiled a new website (chesapeakemonitoringcoop.org). The online cooperative provides a platform to share CMC services and resources that have been developed over the past three years and are freely available. The CMC brings together … Continued