Dr. Jana Davis is Associate Executive Director and Chief Scientist of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.
Three other fish wholesalers and 19 individuals were also prosecuted in the Chesapeake Bay bust.
"Every little bit counts, " says Jennifer Aiosa, a senior scientist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis, Md.
C. area work with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to clean up the bay.
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The annual report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation gave the bay a score of 28 on a scale of 100.
Your EPA has very thankfully initiated a wonderful effort to finally clean up all the waters that enter the Chesapeake Bay.
Between 1950 and 2000 the human population of the Chesapeake Bay watershed region has more than doubled, from 8m to over 16.7m.
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In Maryland, scientists estimate that the change on the household dishwasher front will reduce phosphorus pollution to the Chesapeake Bay by 3%.
Some varieties like Blue Catfish are considered invasive species which have come to dominate local rivers in the Chesapeake Bay area.
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The agency says the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state partnership that coordinates bay restoration efforts, will decide how the information will be used.
For example, it grows on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, where Ken Staver has been tending a plot for years.
About 50 people were evacuated late Monday from the town of Crisfield, which sits on the Chesapeake Bay, after floodwaters spilled into homes.
On the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, Clinton helped release a restless bald eagle named "Freedom, " which had been treated for injuries.
People along the Chesapeake Bay have lost their once-plentiful fish and crabs, mostly because algae has gotten fat on fertilizer running off from farms.
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Minor tidal flooding was possible along the Delaware coast, the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay and the lower Potomac River, the National Weather Service said.
The bust, the result of a seven-year sting operation, happened in the Chesapeake Bay, the primary spawning and nursery ground for striped bass on the east coast.
By applying a handful of charitable strategies to a vacation property they bought in Topping, Va. on the RappahannockRiver near the Chesapeake Bay, they have done good and done well.
High winds forced the brief closure of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in both directions, Maryland authorities said, but not before a tractor trailer overturned on one end, CNN affiliate WJZ reported.
Nick DiPasquale, director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, said that despite the drop, the survey results still showed signs of resilience in the waterway and the results were a reminder of the importance of continuing restoration efforts.
Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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AnvilNext also helped them accurately represent naval battles (which are new to the series) in the Chesapeake Bay and dynamic weather conditions, both of which played critical roles in history and could not have been done with their previous game engine.
The conversation turns to oyster farming and I talk about spending my early summers in Virginia with my aunt, uncle, and cousin without electricity by the Chesapeake Bay, with hand-drawn water from a well and harvesting oysters from a small inlet.
The US federal government has responded to the Chesapeake Bay challenge by imposing a limit on the amount of pollutants that can flow into the Bay and letting states set up credit-trading programs to promote the most efficient reductions possible.
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They collected long-term historical records from 12 coastal areas in Europe and North America, including information on the Roman elimination of the Dalmatian pelican from the Wadden Sea and the removal of the Atlantic sturgeon from the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay.
And there's the rub: most of the Chesapeake Bay's oyster operations have been public fisheries rather than aquaculture anyone with a license could take oysters from state-owned bars, and though size and number limits were set, often they were more honoured in the breach than in the observance.
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They have also resulted in severe environmental consequences globally due to nutrient mismanagement, including the great U.S. Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, more recently, massive plumes of nutrient runoff in areas like the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, which are creating huge marine dead zones.
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Morse shepherds buyers through the process, monitors each boat's progress almost daily, and then--this is something you probably won't find at Chris-Craft--delivers the boat personally. (He's driven them as far as the Chesapeake Bay.) Your first ride in your new skiff is a shakedown cruise with the personable Morse himself, who ends up remaining in touch with many owners for years afterward.
Investigators in this military shipyard region near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay have been asking two basic questions: Was the Bounty fit to sail in rough weather?
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From the Elizabethan English spoken in Chesapeake Bay to the Basque in Elko, Nevada, America's ethnic melting pot refuses categorically to dissolve.
The risk of severe weather is somewhat more modest in Chesapeake Bay, where the required home elevation is 2.5 feet, explains Steve Kieran, architect and owner of the Loblolly House in Taylors Island, Md.
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