Publications

This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship

This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship

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A STAC Workshop structured to learn about alternative approaches to fisheries ,amage,emt tjat are being applied throughout the United States to determine what applicability if any, they might have to Chesapeake Bay fisheries management. In recent years in both domestic and international fisheries, innovative management practices have been employed that seek to improve the efficiency of the fishery while protecting the resource stock and resulting in higher net benefits from fishing to society. This workshop, developed by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) in partnership with MD and VA Sea Grant, was structured to learn about alternative approaches to fisheries management that are being applied throughout the United States to determine what applicability, if any, they might have to Chesapeake Bay fisheries management. The purpose was not to select or endorse any particular approach for Chesapeake Bay fisheries, but rather to learn how such approaches were introduced and implemented in their respective fisheries. Based on the workshop recommendations, it is expected that a process will be implemented to explore possible adoption of alternative management techniques in Chesapeake Bay Fishery Management Plans.

Reducing Pollution from Nonpoint Sources: The Chesapeake Experience February 26-28, 1990

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This is the workshop proceedings held on December 14, 1998. Its purpose, as delineated on the agenda (see Appendix I) was to initiate a process to develop nutrient trading policies and guidelines to achieve and maintain the Nutrient Cap in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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This report summaries the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel. The panel was established to identify funding sources sufficient to implement basinwide clean-up plans so that the Bay and its tidal tributaries would be restored sufficiently by 2010 to remove them from the list of impaired waters under the Clean Water Act.

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Background information on the use of build-out analysis and water quality/environmental modeling as land planning and water quality predictive management tools.

Strategies to decrease the risks of future introductions of nutrients through ballast water management.

The major recommendations of this plan is to institute a Baywide, core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review, of existing programs.

This manual is designed to assist local governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed with developing or enhancing household hazardous waste management programs.