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Chesapeake Bay Week

Maryland Public Television presents the annual Chesapeake Bay Week in an effort to foster discussion of issues surrounding the Chesapeake Bay

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Eatin' Crabs Chesapeake Style

A rollicking foray into the world of the blue crab from dockside to table. From Baltimore's busiest harborside districts and most famed crab shacks to beloved and isolated locales from Ocean City to Oakland, a look at a uniquely Maryland slice of life.
WATCH: Monday, April 21 @ 9 p.m.

RELATED SUN CONTENT
• Crab recipes

Outdoors Maryland: Hidden Rivers

MPT explores the impact of storm water runoff on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and examines possible solutions.
WATCH: Tuesday, April 22 @ 7:30 p.m. (Click image for a preview)

RELATED SUN ARTICLES
• Underground waterways rush pollution to Chesapeake Bay (February 26, 2008)

Blind Spots: Threats to the Chesapeake

MPT explores three little-known but ominous environmental threats to the Chesapeake Bay.
WATCH: Tuesday, April 22 @ 11 p.m. (Click image for a preview)

RELATED SUN ARTICLES
• Oxygen in short supply for fish in troubled waters (September 11, 2005)

Weary Shoreline: The Chesapeake's Death by a Thousand Cuts

MPT explores how failure to enforce one of the state's most important environmental laws is contributing to the decline of the Chesapeake Bay's health.
WATCH: Thursday, April 24 @ 9 p.m. (Click image for a preview)

RELATED SUN ARTICLES
• Runoff, growth turn the Choptank into Md.'s second-most polluted river (December 9, 2007)
• Bay protection eroded, bit by bit (January 21, 2008)
• Groups urge Choptank cleanup (January 23, 2008)

Outdoors Maryland: Chesapeake Crossroads

The story of the Chesapeake told through crabbers, oystermen and pound-net fishermen whose way of life is diminishing.
WATCH: Friday, April 25 @ 11:30 p.m. (Click image for a preview)

RELATED SUN ARTICLES
• Declining harvests fail to deter young waterman (August 19, 2007)

100 Days: Rediscovering John Smith's Chesapeake Bay

MPT presents a renewed discovery of the Chesapeake Bay then-and-now through the eyes of 21 crewmembers piloting a replica of Captain John Smith's boat that he sailed in 1608 to explore the Chesapeake Bay wilderness.
WATCH: Friday, April 25 @ 9 p.m.

RELATED SUN ARTICLES
• Md. town banks on historic trail (January 15, 2007)
• Exploring the Bay ... John Smith's way (March 31, 2007)
• Voyage of rediscovery (May 12, 2007)

Chesapeake Milestones
• Oyster Wars
• Storm of the Century
• Spanning the Chesapeake
• Deep Freeze

Chesapeake Bay Week

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