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Addendum to the Fall Line Toxics 1992 Final Report

This pilot study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column, sediment and suborganismal tests.

This study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests.

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

Overview including The Agreement, Federal agency involvement, and the progress made in implementing the Agreement, an item-by item basis according to the 20 specific commitments subscribed by the signatories.

This study was designed to determine the influence of a range of salinities on the acute toxicity of atrazine to the copepod, and the sheepshead minnow larvae. An additional objective of the study was to provide acute atrazine toxicity date for E. affinis

An important criterion applied in this plan is the focus on long-term, baseline monitoring which will provide data for the characterization of living resource populations and for tracking trends in their abundance over time.

Programs' objectives were to monitor the bacteriological quality of Maryland's shellfish harvesting waters to assure adequate public health protection from shellfish unsafe for human consumption and to assist in the identification and elimination of pollution sources in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

A Synthesis of Tributary Strategies for the Bay's Ten Watersheds: Bay Program plan for cooperative, integrated and consistent scientific approach to nitrogen and phosphorous reduction in Bay that provides the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission the flexibility to deal with the special circumstances of each tributary

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This document is available electronically only. This is a report on Guidance for Protecting Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay from Physical Disruption

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