Timothy B. Wheeler

In August 2022, a plume of orange, silt-laden water covers much of Maryland’s lower Gunpowder River. Aerial photos taken in summer 2023 and 2024 showed similar plumes. (Submitted Photo)

Because ospreys feed almost exclusively on fish, they are a good indicator of fish abundance.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Ospreys nesting at multiple sites around the Chesapeake Bay this year failed to produce enough young to sustain their numbers, new data shows. The scientists collecting the data say many chicks apparently starved in areas where the birds subsist mainly on Atlantic menhaden for food.

Joseph (Brody) Phillips, left, Jack Buchanan, and Anna DeMotte of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science seine for juvenile striped bass in the James River in July 2023. (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)

As Maryland works to complete the last of five large oyster restoration projects it committed to a decade ago, state officials have decided to tackle three more.

A water cannon on an Oyster Recovery Partnership boat shoots spat-on-shell oysters from the University of Maryland’s Horn Point hatchery onto a sanctuary in Maryland’s Tred Avon River in 2018. Dave Harp

Company withdraws $40 million offer amid pushback from birders, local residents

A second Virginia seafood company has been awarded a state grant to increase its capacity to process commercially caught blue catfish.

Striped bass play an important role as a top predator in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, and they are popular with anglers, too.

Lawsuits challenge decision to allow up to 90 homes along Chester River