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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!
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For the Love of Books and Bivalves
Deale Library’s ‘Save the Bay’ story time launched a unique partnership with CBF’s new Truman Oyster Center that will propel local oyster restoration in Maryland.
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Save the Bay News: Why Menhaden Matter
This month we bring you a special menhaden edition to our Save the Bay newsletter. We explore why this tiny fish is so critical to…
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Menhaden
How Many More Osprey Chicks Must Starve to Death?
Some of the Chesapeake Bay’s best fishermen—osprey—are sending a loud warning: There aren’t enough fish in the Bay. It’s time to act.
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Learn Outside
Like Mother, Like Daughter
When teacher Karen Earp first joined one of CBF’s professional learning courses on Smith Island, she had recently learned she was pregnant. Nearly 30 years later, she and her daughter—now a teacher herself—returned together.
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Menhaden
Coming Up Empty: Commercial Watermen in Maryland are Finding Fewer Menhaden
Commercial bait fishermen, who supply menhaden to other fisheries like blue crabs, are stretched thin as it gets harder to find fish.
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Fisheries
To Save the Chesapeake Bay, Save This Fish
Saving menhaden helps save the bay. Now, evidence of a crisis is impossible to ignore.
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Save the Bay News
Save the Bay News: Trout, Reef Balls, and the Lowdown on Vibrio
In this month’s newsletter, we talk blue crabs, menhaden, the rise of vibrio, and much more.
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Fisheries
Field Notes: Building an Oyster Reef
Over the course of the summer, CBF built an oyster reef as part of a larger project to restore and protect an eroding shoreline along Maryland's South River.
