Fish

Weather conditions caused an algae bloom and depleted dissolved oxygen levels.

The northern snakehead — native to East Asia — was first discovered in the state in 2002, and attempts to stop its growth have been unsuccessful.

Is the misleading name a red herring?

Maryland’s rivers once teemed with a fish called river herring, the generic name for alewife and blueback herring.A century ago, watermen on the Choptank…