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New move to save historic shad
There's new help on the way for what used to be the Chesapeake Bay's most important fish, though how much good it will do remains to be seen. The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council has enacted a first-ever cap on how many American shad and...
Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Conservation, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Herring
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Shad run is down to a crawl
You would probably have to over the age of 50 to remember when late May and early June meant shad in Maryland. In those days, the spawning season for American shad and river herring brought young and old to the banks of Maryland tributaries to catch their...
Tags: Hydroelectricity, Fishing, Herring, Exelon Corp., Credit and Debt
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Maryland to limit female crab catch
Maryland moved Monday to reduce the commercial harvest of female blue crabs in the aftermath of a survey finding that the Chesapeake Bay's crab population hit a five-year low last winter. The Department of Natural Resources announced that it was...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Aquaculture
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Chesapeake Bay's health said to be improving [Letter]
Editor: A recent Aegis editorial about the health of the Chesapeake Bay ("Stormwater fee set low in Harford the best of a bad situation," April 23) is [off base]. Certainly the job of restoring the Bay is far from finished, but the Aegis is incorrect in...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bodies of Water, Rivers, Environmental Pollution
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Harford council hears mostly opposition, some support for stormwater fee bill
A public hearing on a proposed stormwater remediation fee turned into a hearing largely for Harford County Council members Tuesday night. Councilwoman Mary Ann Lisanti and Councilman Dion Guthrie, both Democrats who have opposing views on the state-...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Butterfly Ballots, James Barker, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harford County
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Drop in Bay's crab population to bring new catch curbs
With a new survey finding the Chesapeake Bay's crab population at its lowest level in five years after a poor spawn last year, Maryland officials announced Friday they would move to tighten catch limits on the region's iconic crustacean. The annual...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Martin O'Malley, Energy Resources, Conservation, Aquaculture
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Environmentalists threaten to sue energy company
A trio of environmental groups warned Monday they would sue the operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland for allegedly discharging excessive amounts of nutrient pollution into Chesapeake Bay rivers and trying to mask their violations by...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Environmental Politics, Wildlife, NRG Energy Incorporated, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Chesapeake Bay improving, green group says
The Chesapeake Bay's health appears to be slowly rebounding, but still has a long way to go to be considered fully recovered, according to the region's largest environmental group. The Annapolis-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation rated the estuary's...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Conservation, Annapolis, Environmental Pollution
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Consultants to track sources of waterway contamination
On good days, the Tiber Hudson tributary of the Patapsco is a pleasant part of the scenery in Historic Ellicott City as it flows through a stone channel by Tonge Row, beneath Tiber Alley alongside Main Street and past the B&O Railroad Museum before it...
Tags: Ellicott City, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Ken Ulman, Howard County
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Is the Bay Foundation ignoring the threat behind the Conowingo Dam?
Why does the Chesapeake Bay Foundation refuse to take seriously the threat posed by the Conowingo Dam's inability to hold back Susquehanna River pollution? With respect to the effect of Susquehanna River pollutants, the bay foundation has taken an...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Cecil County, Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Tropical Storms
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Storm triggers big Howard sewage spill
Sandy knocked out power to Howard County's "water reclamation" plant in Savage, causing 20 to 25 million gallons of untreated but rain-diluted human waste to spill into the Little Patuxent River, a branch of one of the Chesapeake Bay's most degraded...Tags: Ken Ulman, Howard County, Patapsco, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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Large harbor floating wetland project stirs debate
If a little green might help restore Baltimore's ailing harbor, how can a lot be bad? That's the question city, state and federal officials are pondering as they weigh a local marina magnate's plan to fill an unused corner of the Inner Harbor with a large...
Tags: Government, Inner Harbor, Aquaculture, National Government, National Marine Fisheries Service
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