Publications

A 120-member Watershed Action Team worked on four taskforces to develop a restoration plan: Habitat and Living Resources; Sediment Quality; Water Quality, and Toxics Reduction. The Team recommends 18 restoration implementation actions, outlined in this report.

Review and assessment of implementation status and effectiveness of seven Chesapeake Bay Program Fishery Management Plans (FMPs).

This document describes the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem Water Quality Monitoring Program in general and provides detailed information about the existing program data base.

Corridor Plan addresses a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life in the Havre de Grace regions.

The major recommendation 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.

Suspension Feeders: A Workshop to Assess What we Know; Don't Know and need to know to determine their effects on water quality.

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

Annual Progress Report

This report discusses the improvement of public access to the waters of the Bay, one of the major initiatives of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1987. Increased public awareness through expanded Bay access opportunities is considered essential in gaining public support and commitment for the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay.

The study suggests a weighted approach, which incorporates the fact that a detection limit is a measure of precision of the data.