The Chesapeake Bay Program is a massive collaboration of states, nonprofits and federal agencies. Late last year, the group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement’s deadline approaches, oyster restoration in the region has met its checkpoint. In the ...

In a major victory for oyster restoration, a coalition of federal, state, and local partners celebrated a historic achievement in Annapolis on Wednesday: the restoration of about 2,000 acres of oyster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oyster season is coming to a close. But, there's still time to enjoy the Eastern Shore seafood delicacy during Chesapeake Oyster ...

Oysters are thriving at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and the news continues to get better for the mollusks and local watermen. In the past 20 years, the oyster population has grown from 2.4 ...

Weather shapes Chesapeake Bay oysters, as rain, drought and storms change salinity, affecting oyster health, harvests and ...

It would be a quiet and peaceful morning at the edge of the Choptank River in Cambridge, Maryland, if not for the forklifts racing around the pier, scraping 5-foot-tall metal cages along the ground as ...

Crassostrea virginica has occupied a prominent position in the ecology and economy of the Chesapeake Bay. In the early colonial period, oysters were so abundant that reefs posed navigational ...

Scientists at VIMS and NOAA created new Chesapeake Bay forecasting tools designed to predict changing water conditions and ...

As the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement’s deadline approaches, oyster restoration in the region has met its checkpoint. In the agreement, signed more than a decade ago, 10 specific tributaries were ...