Maryland requested a federal disaster declaration for the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery Friday, after a perfect storm of bad weather and headline-grabbing environmental incidents depressed the market.

A menhaden pulled from the Chesapeake Bay in the area of Jordan Point Marina. (Photo by Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) A board that oversees the management of critical forage fish menhaden along ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (ACCESS Newswire) — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources released its 2025 Chesapeake Bay Young-of-Year Striped Bass Survey Results, and for the third year in a row, the news ...

We’re in the peak of summer and people across Maryland can be seen traveling the roads for family vacation destinations. For many, fishing and enjoying the outdoors will be part of the fun, and with ...

If you drained the whole Chesapeake Bay most times during the year and weighed every fish, at least 70% would be blue catfish, scientists estimate. Aggressive catfish that can weigh over 100 pounds ...

A new Maryland Department of Natural Resources study says bowfishing and gigging have become the most common ways anglers are ...

A revised Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement was approved by a multi-state council led by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. The new agreement sets a 2040 deadline for reducing pollution and achieving other ...

Re “Atlantic menhaden catch reduced for ’26” (A1, Oct. 31): I care about menhaden because these small fish play a big part in the Chesapeake Bay’s food web. Menhaden fuel our fisheries, feed wildlife ...