Sturgeons are one of the oldest groups of fishes. Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal ...

The EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program has worked to restore the Bay’s waters and fish and plant life since 1983, but severe cuts ...

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help ...

The Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act is a new bill designed to help improve this process. The bill has support ...

Are we risking the health of the bay’s ecosystem and economy so that a Canadian company can make higher profits? By allowing ...

Spring is making its presence known, and the warm sunny days are bringing out anglers. Maryland’s special youth trout fishing ...

Cobia catch rates have fallen off in the South Atlantic—off Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina—and there is rising ...

"Why not try something locally harvested that doesn't have to travel across the world to get to your plate?" a fisheries ...

Short-lived fish such as herring and shad can recover ... to split the population into groups based on ranges. The Chesapeake Bay is one of five “distinct population segments” the U.S ...

This year, Del. Paul Milde spearheaded one effort for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to complete the $3 million three-year study of the ecology, fishery impacts, and economic ...