Chesapeake Bay Collaborative

Baltimore County watermen are working to clear lost crab pots that harm the Chesapeake Bay’s ecology and the commercial crab fishery. It’s a local effort aimed at a Baywide problem.

Maryland fell short of its water clean up goals, a task that’s more difficult when polluters don’t take the state penalties for breaking the rules seriously, Chesapeake Bay advocates said on the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

Tourists visiting the Chesapeake Bay region have plenty of options: boating, fishing, dining and more. But one particular type of tourism that has grown...

For as long as there’s been a Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at the mouth of the bay, there’s been a gift shop and restaurant perched on an island in the…

Osprey, like bald eagles, are a comeback story.Their eggs were destroyed by the pesticide DDT, until it was banned in 1972, when there were only about…

A group of anthropology majors from Washington College in Chestertown has spent the summer not at the beach, but as research assistants roaming the…

Dr. Helen Bailey, who did her PhD work on bottle nose dolphins, says she heard reports of occasional sightings of the marine mammals when she came to work…

In recent years, Chesapeake watermen and seafood processors have begun developing a market for blue catfish, that invasive species that has exploded in…

A bipartisan array of state officials went to bat for the Chesapeake Bay yesterday, lobbying their Congressional representatives to restore $73 million in…

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget eliminates all of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s $73 million and reduces or eliminates several other funds used to…