The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a ...

If areas do continue to consistently experience lower salinity, then the spread and impacts of blue catfish will become a bigger issue." Not only is the Chesapeake Bay dead zone living ...

Allison Colden, Maryland fisheries scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, said salinity appeared to be a major factor in the variability of the crab harvests from one place to another. But, she ...

Ryan Carnegie, a research associate professor at VIMS, says the low salinity is also impacting the bay’s oysters, both for good and ill. “MSX disease may largely be purged from Chesapeake Bay oyster ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s underwater meadows continued to expand ... Underwater grass beds generally expanded in mid– and high-salinity areas of the Bay, he noted, with more mixed results in ...

Nepal and Fabrizio undertook the study to better constrain the salinity tolerance of blue catfish in their non-native Chesapeake Bay habitat. The value used in the 2014 report that currently guides ...

Researchers from Penn State and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science are studying the Chesapeake Bay to see how changes in sea level may have affected the salinity of ...

NOAA uses buoys throughout the Chesapeake Bay, including in the York Spit, to measure conditions such as temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity — how salty the water is. That data is then ...

“Certain low-salinity regions still need to improve, but overall the findings are promising for the near-term future of this vital species.“ But even with the promising data, the Chesapeake ...

The remains of a salty ocean ancient enough for dinosaurs to have drowned in it have been found deep in the sediment under the Chesapeake Bay ... It had its own salinity and its salinity was ...

Too much rain lowers the salinity, while drought makes water ... executive director of Maryland for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. In recent years, she said, more than 1,300 acres of oyster ...