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!
Learn Outside
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.
Menhaden
Commercial bait fishermen, who supply menhaden to other fisheries like blue crabs, are stretched thin as it gets harder to find fish.
Fisheries
Saving menhaden helps save the bay. Now, evidence of a crisis is impossible to ignore.
Save the Bay News
In this month’s newsletter, we talk blue crabs, menhaden, the rise of vibrio, and much more.
Fisheries
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.
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.
