Publications

This report summarizes the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Ballast Water Work Group. It provides a review of unintentional introductions via ballast water from an ecological, economic, and cultural point of view; it identifies actions currently under consideration at the international, national, and state level; and it offers recommendations to the Bay states and the federal government for reducing the risk of biological invasion via ballast water release in the Chesapeake Bay.

Beginning in September 1985, a hypoxia program was conceived by the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Effects Committee as an ecologically oriented study focusing on system-level effects. In 1990, the Chesapeake Bay Office joined the CBEEC research program and the focus of the research program was redirected from hypoxia to studies of toxic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay

A summary of a 1992 workshop, the purpose of which was to provide a forum for investigators' progress reports, the fostering of collaborative research, evaluation of the Toxics Research Program; and dialogue among researchers , managers and the Chesapeake Bays Environmental Effects Committee.

Focusing on objectives outlined in a pilot study created to define the magnitude and timing of toxic substances entering the Chesapeake Bay from the area above the fall line of the Susquehanna and James rivers.

This report provides an interim assessment of toxic substance loadings being delivered to the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna, Potomac and James rivers.

This report details the Chesapeake Bay Program's Living Resources Subcommittee accomplishments for 1997. Accomplishments in wetlands, bay grasses, oyster reef restoration, fisheries management, fish passage, habitat restoration, exotic species, waterfowl and other water birds, biological monitoring, and ecosystem modeling are presented.

The Strategy Reevaluation was designed to evaluate toxic conditions of the Bay, assess the effects of current programs, and identify additional actions needed to further reduce toxics impacts in the Bay.

Commitments are organized under four areas -- pollution prevention, regulatory program implementation, regional focus, and directed toxics assessment.

Identifies and provides concise documentation on key toxic substances either adversely impacting the Bay system or for which the reasonable potential to do so exists.

This summary of the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia stakeholder roundtables reflects discussions and recommendations made during the roundtables a well as follow-up written responses annotated on the draft commitments worksheets or in letter format.