The NMMA and Boating Writers International (BWI) honored winners of the 2018 Progressive Insurance Miami International Boat Show Innovation Awards, recognizing exceptionally groundbreaking new consumer marine products. The Awards were presented during the boat show’s annual Innovation Breakfast, held […]
It was quite a surprise: Two reports on Chesapeake Bay dissolved oxygen levels in 2017 came to starkly different conclusions. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reported improvements and a vastly reduced dead zone. The […]
We arrived at the refuge at daybreak and had already spent an hour watching huge flocks of waterfowl in the coves at Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Kent County, MD. Our attention shifted to […]
Decades ago, as Ed Enamait and other biologists surveyed the Potomac River for walleye, smallmouth bass, muskie and other freshwater game fish, they discovered a disturbing trend. Every year during the 1980s and ’90s, their […]
In the James River south of Richmond, endangered Atlantic sturgeon have become so common that observant spring and fall boaters are nearly guaranteed to see one breach. It’s hard to miss — a 6– or […]
If you were to round up all of the menhaden swimming along the Atlantic coast and somehow put them on a scale, they’d weigh in at about 1.2 million metric tons. To visualize that, imagine […]
In the words of one scientist, the water of Bilger Run, about 20 miles east of Pennsylvania’s famous town of Punxsutawney, “looks like Tang.” Yes, Tang, the powdered orange drink that was available to, if […]
Bulldozers, excavators and construction workers are bulling their way into Patapsco Valley State Park near Baltimore this fall. They’re the advance guard for a task force charged with removing a dormant hydroelectric dam on the […]
With little to show for more than two decades of effort, Virginia officials next year plan to suspend shad stocking efforts in the James River, conceding defeat for now in restoring what had once been […]
The critical habitat designation will require federal agencies to consult NOAA Fisheries if they operate or fund activities that may affect designated critical habitat in more than 3,968 miles of important coastal river habitat from […]
The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) today expressed support for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works’ (EPW) passage of S. 1514, the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation Act, or HELP for Wildlife Act. […]
Swayed by the concerns of many Pennsylvania anglers, the state’s fishery managers decided Tuesday not to lift a springtime ban on smallmouth bass fishing in the middle and lower Susquehanna and lower Juniata rivers. The […]
Only hours ahead of their departure for the Fourth of July recess, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), and a bipartisan group of senators introduced S. 1514, a strong package of bills that […]
With its huge, flat head and slimy skin, the Eastern hellbender won’t win any beauty contests. It’s picked up such unflattering nicknames as “snot otter” and “old lasagna sides.” But because the rarely seen giant […]
Once a month, Matt Parker and Suzanne Bricker drive along Penny Lane through a Southern Maryland forest until it dead-ends at the Chesapeake Bay. Then, they pull on their waders and hop into a skiff […]
The water might be cold, but the bass are feeding. Here’s how to catch them. March might come in like a lion, but slowly warming waters are triggering striped bass to awaken from their winter […]
After its first look at the Trump administration’s new budget blueprint released March 16, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) says that boat owners should be aware of potential budget impacts that could […]
Here we go again. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has held hearings up and down the East Coast on what to do about menhaden: Should we keep catching the same amount, catch more, catch […]
The water might be cold, but the bass are feeding. Here’s how to catch them. March might come in like a lion, but slowly warming waters are triggering striped bass to awaken from their winter […]
The Inner Harbor Water Wheel, or “Mr. Trash Wheel” to locals, combines old and new technology to harness the power of water and sunlight to collect litter and debris flowing down the Jones Falls River […]
Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary: Nothing says winter like a V-shaped formation of Canada geese winging across a steely sky, their honking carried on a chilly breeze. Cold weather brings tens of thousands of geese, migratory ducks […]
The Maryland Senate unanimously approved a bill Monday night that would impose a moratorium on ray tournaments in the Chesapeake Bay while the Department of Natural Resources develops a plan for managing the species. The vote was […]
Cold weather and cold water can’t hold diehard bass fisherman Ty Spade back. The tournament competitor and Smithwick ambassador lives in central Pennsylvania, where winter weather often clogs his favorite reservoirs with ice. Yet, he […]
ODU recently added a Chessie to our staff (Cider) and we wanted to share with you a partial story and link to one about the Chesapeake Bay Retriever from Ducks Unlimited. “The legend and lore […]
Yellow perch make their spawning run from late February to mid-March and offer some of the earliest opportunities for sport fishermen to break out their rods and tackle. Their delicate meat and early arrival makes […]
Colonial leaders got it right for fish … and people too. As far back as 1670, Virginia prohibited structures like dams that would hinder fish migrating up and down our rivers. Why? They recognized their future depended […]
Big changes are being weighed for Atlantic menhaden, the little, oily fish that no one eats but that stirs such passion. At least one of the possible shifts could reverse recent increases in the allowable […]
East Coast fishery managers agreed Wednesday to bump up next year’s catch limit on Atlantic menhaden, a compromise that satisfied neither commercial fishing interests nor conservationists. Meeting in Bar Harbor, Maine, the Atlantic States Marine […]
Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection has proposed listing four miles of the 400-mile Susquehanna River as impaired for recreation. But though the river’s smallmouth bass have shown signs of illness and the populations have declined, […]
Oysters appear to be thriving in much of the expanded network of sanctuaries Maryland set up six years ago to protect them from commercial harvest, according to a long-anticipated review that the state Department of […]
Headline story: Freedom Hunters Host Chesapeake Bay Fishing for Veterans – On Saturday, July 30, 2016 ten warriors from Maryland and Virginia enjoyed a successful day on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay fishing for […]
Mid-Atlantic fisheries regulators are weighing whether to take additional steps to protect American shad and river herring as they migrate along the East Coast, as some new research suggests significant numbers of herring may be […]
A waterfront house on Virginia’s Northern Neck promised to be a getaway for Janet Mann from three decades of studying dolphins, primarily in Australia’s Shark Bay. But the day after Mann and her husband closed […]
“A lot of anglers are a little fearful of fishing tidal waters,” said tournament angler and brand ambassador Ty Spade. “They think it’s confusing and that if the tide isn’t right, they won’t be able […]
For the first time since the creation of Bassmaster’s 100 Best Bass Lakes rankings, a fishery has reclaimed the No.1 spot in the nation. Toledo Bend Reservoir, which straddles the Texas and Louisiana border, keeps […]
It was hard to hear Jorge Bogantes Montero above the din of traffic helicopters circling over Washington, DC, as he described the handful of muddy shells he and a small team had just dug from […]
Exelon Corp. has pledged in a deal announced Monday to work to enhance spawning fish passage at Conowingo Dam over the next 50 years, seeking to revive the Susquehanna River’s meager stocks of American shad […]
The water might be cold, but the bass are feeding. Here’s how to catch them. March might come in like a lion, but slowly warming waters are triggering striped bass to awaken from their winter […]
A pond provides food, shelter and water for the plant and animals listed here. Can you match each with its description? Answers below. Beaver, Bluegill, Common snapping turtle, Duckweed, Green heron, Spotted salamander & Water […]
Seeking to counter a shortage of oyster habitat in the Chesapeake Bay, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is renewing a controversial bid to dredge old shells that have built up over centuries from an […]
Just a couple days before January’s “snowzilla” storm buried much of the region under 2 feet of snow, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser apologized for the city’s “inadequate response” to less than an inch […]
Dominion Virginia Power could begin draining two coal-ash ponds into Chesapeake Bay tributaries any day now, following a state board’s approval last week. But officials from the power company say it will be months, not […]
The Virginia State Water Control Board approved Thursday Dominion Virginia Power’s permits to drain defunct coal ash ponds into nearby waterways at two sites in the state. The Possum Point power station is near Quantico […]
The December Bay Journal’s front page article on assessing the Bay’s forage base, “Little things turn out to be big deals in Bay predators’ diets,” illustrated both the value and the challenge of science in […]
Once valued as little more than pelts, beavers are back in vogue and rebuilding their reputation as habitat engineers. It helps their cause that the dams they build as homes also create water quality-boosting wetlands […]
The Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus) is found only on the Delmarva Peninsula, the land between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean that includes Delaware, eastern Maryland and eastern Virginia. This large tree […]
In an effort to ensure the healthy population of the striped bass in the Mid-Atlantic region, NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) is raising awareness of the federal regulations governing striped bass in the Exclusive […]
People have been building dams across the Susquehanna River — originally for canals and later for hydropower — for nearly two centuries. For nearly as long, they’ve been debating the best way to get migratory […]
During the 2015 Our Ocean Conference in Valparaiso, Chile, President Barack Obama today announced that, for the first time since 2000, two new national marine sanctuaries have been identified by NOAA for possible designation under […]
Harris Creek was once home to nearly 1,500 acres of Maryland’s best oyster reefs, but in recent decades its oyster population — like those in much of the Bay — had dramatically dwindled. When biologists […]
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