The Latest Breaking News from Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay Foundation's report highlights progress in oyster restoration and challenges ahead for environmental conservation efforts.

Recreational fishermen and conservation groups worry overfishing for menhaden threatens the Chesapeake Bay. Industry says current data doesn't support shutting down the more than century-old fishery.

A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay is faulting the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway

The dead zone of the Chesapeake Bay — sometimes covered in red and brown algae and deadly to fish — is shrinking, according to a recent study.

The predator, named Bob, was spotted by OCEARCH near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which reaches both Virginia and Maryland in the US

The 13ft long white shark is heading south to winter feeding grounds

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

A Maryland angler on Sunday reeled a 49-pound common carp from Chesapeake Bay, shattering a state record that had stood since 1978.

Summer approaches, and it’s traditionally a time when a Marylander’s fancy turns to a dozen Number One Jimmies steamed. The bad news is that Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are running especially scarce this year, a combination of a cool spring that reduces crab movement (and thus prevents watermen from catching…