Publications

This Backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about the new living resource-based approach to restoring Bay water quality.

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This Backgrounder highlights milestones in Bay water quality restoration between April 2003 and 2010.

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Designed to improve the ecology of Chesapeake Bay; the ecological value of the oyster resource; to restore, augment, and set aside hard substrate on the Bay bottom to enhance reef community development and improve aquatic habitat; and to increase the stock of oysters in Chesapeake Bay

Purpose of Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab's ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast through improved knowledge of stocks and the integration of specific habitat actions thus providing for its commercial, recreational and medical usage over time

The goal of the King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate King and Spanish mackerel stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their commercial and recreational harvest and utilization over time.

Answers the question: how do forests provide answers for the restoration of the bay.

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Based on a three-phase program resulting in an integrated and comprehensive approach for targeting habitat restoration projects in the Bay watershed

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This Policy's intent is to guide the protection and restoration of all submerged aquatic vegetation within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries

Outreach document outlining priorities for actions for land, growth and stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay region

Describes strategy devised by the Ecologically Valuable Species Workgroup, a group organized under the Living Resources Subcommittee of the Chesapeake Bay Program, that views the Bay as an holistic ecosystem