Aquatic forage species — the small fish, worms and other out-of-sight species that feed all the others — are the lifeblood of the Chesapeake Bay. So, to better assess the health of nation’s ...

Conservationists in Virginia worry that overfishing of menhaden is harming the Chesapeake ... other species, I think we'd all be celebrating. HAFNER: But the available data looks at the fish's ...

OKAY. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR FISHING ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. YEAH, I GOT IT. BUT THIS IS NO ORDINARY CATCH. THIS IS THE BLUE CATFISH. AN INVASIVE SPECIES THAT EATS ANYTHING IN ITS PATH.

an invasive fish species whose numbers have swelled in the rivers and Chesapeake Bay in the D.C. region over the last few years. The $18,800 program, which is being run by the Maryland Department ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has asked the federal government to declare the increasing population of invasive fish species in the Chesapeake Bay an ongoing commercial fishery disaster. “In ...

Dan Rodricks reported that dolphins are appearing in the Chesapeake ... these fish-eating mammals and the apparent fact that there is a superabundance of many species of fish in the bay right ...

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population has dropped to record, "distressing" lows, according to the annual Winter Dredge ...

(WAVY) — A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay office said this ... conditions were better for fish and other species like crabs and oysters ...

This stems from the fact that the catfish are not native to the Chesapeake Bay, but rather are an invasive species. They were brought to Virginia waters in the 1970s for recreational fishing ...

but it is an effort from the company to help manage the invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay. (Billy Schuerman / The Virginian-Pilot) Rowley, who grew up fishing on the Chesapeake Bay ...

In Virginia, some little fish are at the center of a big, decadeslong fight. They're called menhaden. Conservationists worry that overfishing is harming the ecosystem in the Chesapeake Bay.