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Mark your calendars for these Upcoming CBF events!
Save the Bay Photo Contest
Viewers' Choice Winner
Check in May 7 for our 2013 Save the Bay Photo Contest Viewers' Choice winner. Take a look.
Clean the Bay Day
June 1 marks the 25th consecutive year Virginians gather to clean our waters. Register today.
Bands in the Sand
June 15 is CBF's annual party on the beach. Registration will open soon. Buy your tickets now.
PRESS STATEMENT
May 13, 2013
CBF Calls for Stronger House Farm Bill
(ANNAPOLIS, MD)—Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William C. Baker made this statement in response to the House Agriculture Committee's release of its draft of the Farm Bill.
"The House Agriculture Committee's draft 2013 Farm Bill falls far short for the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams. This draft actually reduces conservation programs at a time when all of us are asked to do more to reduce pollution....Any loss of funding will shortchange our farmers and increase costs for local citizens and governments."
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PRESS STATEMENT
MAY 9, 2013
Bay Foundation Responds to EPA's Approval of PA Impaired Waters List
(HARRISBURG, PA)—Harry Campbell, Pennsylvania Executive Director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) issued this statement following the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the state Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) 2012 Impaired Waters List. CBF and partners petitioned DEP to list the Lower Susquehanna River as impaired, due to on-going, disease and die-offs of the smallmouth bass population in this 100-mile stretch of the river.
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PRESS RELEASE
April 25, 2013
Report Suggests Link Between Smallmouth Bass Mortality and Water Pollution
(ANNAPOLIS, MD)—Scientists suggest that a perfect storm of pollution, parasites, warming water temperatures, and endocrine disrupting chemicals may be combining to threaten one of the region's most popular fresh water game fish, the smallmouth bass, according to a new Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) report. In Maryland recreational anglers targeting smallmouth bass contribute $206 million to local economies, supporting 1,000 jobs, according to data from the American Sportfishing Association and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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CBF In the News
May 13, 2013
Smallmouth Bass Fishing Banned until June
(York Daily Record) Over the past decade, the decline of one of the most prized freshwater sport-fish species—the smallmouth bass—has puzzled anglers and scientists.
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CBF In the News
May 12, 2013
Group to Consider How to Get More Information about Pesticide Use in Md.
(Herald Mail) In July, members of a work group created as a result of a measure that passed the Maryland General Assembly earlier this year will start looking at ways to get more information about pesticide use in the state.
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