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The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a matrix compiling information on habitat requirements, stressors, and threats for egg and larval life stages of lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

Fish and shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed rely on a variety of important habitats throughout the watershed. These habitats, which are key to sustaining fisheries, are being threatened by a suite of stressors and sources such as increased urbanization, poor water quality and climate change. Successful fisheries management depends on knowing what and where these important habitats are and addressing the potential and realized threats to their integrity. Tetra Tech will provide staff time and resources to develop products in support of the Fish Habitat Outcome and Management Strategy (http://www.chesapeakebay.net/managementstrategies/strategy/fish_habitat). As a first step the Management Strategy calls for compiling information on key species, their habitat requirements, habitat functions (generally spawning, nursery, and forage), and the threats or stressors to these habitats.

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The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a matrix of available habitat requirements, threats and stressors for lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

Fish and shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed rely on a variety of important habitats throughout the watershed. These habitats, which are key to sustaining fisheries, are being threatened by a suite of stressors and sources such as increased urbanization, poor water quality and climate change. Successful fisheries management depends on knowing what and where these important habitats are and addressing the potential and realized threats to their integrity. Tetra Tech will provide staff time and resources to develop products in support of the Fish Habitat Outcome and Management Strategy (http://www.chesapeakebay.net/managementstrategies/strategy/fish_habitat). As a first step the Management Strategy calls for compiling information on key species, their habitat requirements, habitat functions (generally spawning, nursery, and forage), and the threats or stressors to these habitats.

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The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a detailed literature review for lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

Fish and shellfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed rely on a variety of important habitats throughout the watershed. These habitats, which are key to sustaining fisheries, are being threatened by a suite of stressors and sources such as increased urbanization, poor water quality and climate change. Successful fisheries management depends on knowing what and where these important habitats are and addressing the potential and realized threats to their integrity. Tetra Tech will provide staff time and resources to develop products in support of the Fish Habitat Outcome and Management Strategy (http://www.chesapeakebay.net/managementstrategies/strategy/fish_habitat). As a first step the Management Strategy calls for compiling information on key species, their habitat requirements, habitat functions (generally spawning, nursery, and forage), and the threats or stressors to these habitats.

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A continuation of An Urgent Call to Action on the future of clane water if actions are not taken now.

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The amount of nutrients entering our waters has dramatically escalated over the past 50 years, and nutrients now pose significant water quality and public health concerns across the United States. In terms of growing drinking water impacts, expanding impairment of incland waters, and compromised coastal estuaries, nitrogen and phosphorus we face in the21st century (Beosch 1999). Current efforts to control nutrients have been hard-fought but collectivel inadequate at both a statewaide and national scale.

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Final report from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science-Chesapeake Biological Lab team on their work to develop a suite of forage indicators and consumption profiles for species in the Chesapeake Bay. Project funded by the Chesapeake Bay Program/Chesapeake Bay Trust.

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Data presented in this report were collected during the eighth year of a research program designed to assess ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay. The goals of this study were to identify toxic ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of standardized water column and sediment toxicity tests concurrently with fish and benthic community assessments (index of biotic integrity approaches). The toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the late summer/early fall of1998 nat tenstation in the following areas: Choptank River and Anacostia River.

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Data presented in this report were collected during the eighth year of a research program designed to assess ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay. The goals of this study were to identify toxic ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of standardized water column and sediment toxicity tests concurrently with fish and benthic community assessments (index of biotic integrity approaches). The toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the late summer/early fall of 1998 at ten stations in the following areas: Choptank River and Anacostia River.

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This is a continuation from Part I of the same title.

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