Publications

Addresses patterns in fisheries harvests and abundance, species interactions within Chesapeake Bay, multispecies management concepts and approaches, and potential for multispecies approaches in Chesapeake Bay.

This document describes how to access biological monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS).

Documents process used to develop priorities for Action for Land, Growth and Stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay Region 1996

A collection of presentations from the largest forum to focus exclusively on Bay watershed research and its application to support environmental management decisions.

Provides field and laboratory methods and associated quality control procedures and criteria intended to generate data of known and documented quality for use in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program.

Annual progress report: Description of all fish passage development, reintroduction efforts, and habitat assessment activities by signatory jurisdictions. Summary of federal agency activities in 1996, as well as actions planned for 1997.

This manual catalogs local programs in the watershed that positively impacts, either directly or indirectly, the quality of the Chesapeake Bay, the surrounding watershed and the quality of life for its living resources.

The workshops addressed major categories of toxicological research, including suborganismal toxicity testing, whole organism toxicity, contaminant fate and transport, and ecological risk assessment.

This report summarizes the water quality data collected by the Conestoga River volunteer monitors with particular emphasis on the concentration of nitrate.

This study's goal is to assess the comparability of water quality results from the 10 analytical laboratories that participate in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. This goal is being achieved by identifying any parameters that have low inter-organization agreement and estimating measurement system variability.