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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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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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.
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Fisheries
Critical Questions About a Critical Fish
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.”
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Menhaden
Measuring Menhaden on the Rappahannock
Crabber Tyree Smith hunts for bunker amid rising prices and worries about the long-term sustainability of this critical fish.
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Fisheries
Is the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Population Still Crashing?
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.
