Chesapeake Bay Journal

Jeremy Moyer (left), his brother Brandon (right) and their father Larkin (center) run Oakmulgee Dairy Farm west of Richmond. The farm will soon be home to a renewable energy project. (John Maciel/Vanguard Renewables)

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.

U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) joins conservation officials and other lawmakers to announce draft legislation that could designate the Chesapeake Bay region a National Recreation Area.

Virginia Tech doctoral students Grace O’Malley (foreground) and Gabrielle Ripa visit a restored stream near Annapolis where they’ve set up audio recorders to capture the “soundscape” for a few minutes every day over the course of a year. (Craig Newcomb/Virginia Tech)

The summertime dead zone that occurs in the Chesapeake Bay is an area of very low-oxygen water that stresses fish, crabs and shellfish.

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

Vincent Leggett, a champion of Black heritage on the Chesapeake Bay, stands by the Annapolis waterfront in 2018.

Larry Sanford, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Program

The South Fork of the Rockfish River in Virginia eventually flows into the Rockfish River, a tributary of the James River.