Removing Impediments to Migratory Fishes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Annual Progress Report

Published:

July 1, 1999

Originator:

Chesapeake Bay Program

EPA Number:

903-R-99-012

Categorized in:

Report

In 1997 and 1998 the CBP signatories opened 294.3 miles of blocked tributary habitat to migratory fish and 67 miles to resident fish (a total of 361.3 miles) within the Bay watershed. Since the program's inception, almost 80 projects have been completed, which opened 523.5 stream miles to migratory fish. This report discusses fish passage project currently in the planning, design or construction phases for 1999 and future years.