Upper Chesapeake Bay The 2024 striped bass season is ... The first is fishing for white perch in the deeper waters of the main channels off Kent Island, the Bay Bridge rock piles, the deep areas ...

Environmental advocates are expressing concern after a key regulatory commission opted not to impose immediate stricter fishing rules for striped bass, a vital species in the Chesapeake Bay which ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY ... fishing regulations in place for another year, wait for more population data to be released from the 2024 Stock Assessment, and decide on regulations for the 2026 season.

The Chesapeake Bay Executive Council, a group of governors and other environmental leaders, announced plans to revise the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. With the 2014 agreement, the council ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY — A new bill aimed at designating the Chesapeake Bay as part of the National Parks System is gaining traction among state lawmakers. The Chesapeake National Recreation Area Act (S.

The blue crab season in the Chesapeake Bay will be longer and more productive according to scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. After researchers studied data ...

It's the soaring glory of Chesapeake Bay as never seen by Captain John Smith and his traveling companions of 1608. Chesapeake Bay by Air is MPT's new one-hour program that forever captures the ...

The multi-state agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, which fell short on many of its promises for 2025, will officially be amended, after a gathering of some of the bay region’s top ...

A decision was reached during a recent meeting of the Atlantic State Marine Fishery Commission to keep the current ...

This will be the last weekly fishing report of 2024. All of us at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources wish you the ...

State and federal leaders from around the Chesapeake Bay watershed met this week to discuss how to move forward with restoring the nation’s largest estuary. A decade ago, Virginia and other ...