Our Save the Bay Blog features a range of informative, engaging, and hopeful stories about CBF, our work and people, and conservation issues of the moment. Read on!
Fisheries
Atlantic menhaden are the fish that “run the East Coast food web.” So why are they so threatened? Commentary on the recent Washington Post op-ed, “This little fish anchors the East Coast food web. A fight over it is brewing.”
Menhaden
Crabber Tyree Smith hunts for bunker amid rising prices and worries about the long-term sustainability of this critical fish.
Fisheries
No, but there is much more to the story. Blue crab numbers are up from last year, but the population still shows a concerning long-term decline.
Water Quality
As climate change helps drive longer-term increases in water temperatures in the Bay, cases of Vibrio vulnificus—a rare, “flesh-eating” bacteria that thrives in brackish or salty waters—have been increasing in Maryland and Virginia in recent years as well.
Fisheries
Since 2002, CBF has been doing restoration and tree plantings along Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River. Now it’s time to find out how well its fish are doing as a result.
In this month's newsletter, we talk summer storms, women captains, data centers, and so much more.
Reflecting on the impact of CBF’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center, 25 years after it earned the world’s first LEED Platinum certification.
Fisheries
As water temperatures rise, Chesapeake Bay scientists emphasize the importance of minimizing heat stress for aquatic life.
In late May, the 10 millionth tree of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership was planted, and with it came the promise of cleaner water, thriving economies, and healthier communities across Pennsylvania.
