Watermen Fight to Protect Oyster Harvesting Techniques
By JENNIFER HLAD
ANNAPOLIS (Jan. 20, 2010) – More than 150 watermen took a day off from the water Tuesday to protest a proposed oyster restoration plan and support a bill they say will help them hang on to their livelihood.
The bill would protect the watermen’s right to use certain [...]

[Read more →]

Obama Orders EPA to Take the Lead in Bay Cleanup

By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post Staff Writer

President Obama took a dramatic step to revive faltering efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay yesterday, issuing an executive order that could empower the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set a more demanding timetable and penalize states that [...]

[Read more →]

Crab population rebounds in the Chesapeake Bay
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A new survey has found the Chesapeake Bay’s adult population of blue crabs has increased substantially over last year after new management measures were put in place.
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the results of the winter dredge [...]

[Read more →]

Unfortunately, their short-term gain is our long-term loss.  As the article states,”…fishermen who break the law are stealing from their future to satisfy immediate needs.”

By Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post Staff Writer
As police tell it, waterman Dan Dierker was out on the Eastern Shore’s Chester River before dawn, illegally trying to catch rockfish. When a Maryland [...]

[Read more →]

By Kari Lydersen, Washington Post Staff Writers

CHICAGO, Feb. 14 — The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said Saturday.
“We are basically looking now at a [...]

[Read more →]

Did you know that you could get a tax credit of up to $500 for starting an oyster float?
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – A task force recommends Maryland watermen should be taught how to raise oysters instead of having the state pay millions of dollars to plant oysters in the Chesapeake Bay that are later [...]

[Read more →]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland natural resources officials say the female blue crab harvest was down about a third last year. State lawmakers in Maryland and Virginia restricted the harvest last year in an effort to reduce the catch 34 percent and rebuild the dwindling population of the key seafood species.
The Department of Natural Resources says [...]

[Read more →]

Surprise! Five things you shouldn’t recycle

By Lori Bongiorno
Posted Mon Oct 6, 2008 5:08pm PDT
Most of us feel less guilty when we toss something in the bin headed for the recycling plant rather than the landfill. Turns out, though, wishful thinking may do more harm than good. If you include some items that [...]

[Read more →]

We thought there was some kind of serious toxic fire nearby as we drove through Delaware Saturday.  I only wish we hadn’t driven so fast past the DuPont plant because the dark, swirling stacks of disgusting fumes coming out of that place was unbelievable. Just the sheer amount of it was incredible. I shot this [...]

[Read more →]

Swimming in Intrigue in Backwoods of Maryland
By David A. Fahrenthold and Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post Staff Writers
The covert meeting that started it all happened in a warehouse set back in the Southern Maryland woods. The target had the money, $514.50.
The undercover officer had the fish.
He had 11 illegal rockfish, the stripe-sided beauties beloved by [...]

[Read more →]

Plan outlines how Va. would use crab-disaster aid
from wtop.com NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – Virginia would spend $3 million in federal aid to buy back licenses from hundreds of watermen who agree to stop catching crabs from the Chesapeake Bay, according to a conservation plan proposed this week.
Under the plan, which is expected to be approved, [...]

[Read more →]

OH YES, OH YES – It will be alllll the new administration’s fault if every parcel of land isn’t raped.  I don’t think I could live with myself if every single green space wasn’t turned over for record profit of oil tycoons.  Oh and of course it’s also the new administration’s fault if oil prices [...]

[Read more →]

From WTOP.com
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Representatives of Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources will brief a panel of state legislators on the status of the state’s blue crab population.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in November that Maryland and Virginia would each be eligible for $10 million to help those affected by the failure [...]

[Read more →]

Here’s information from an email that I received from the Mattawoman Watershed Society.

get the New Year started on the right foot – take a walk

Sunday, January 18th
1:00 – 3:00 PM

Opposite Lackey High School, Chicamuxen Road, Indian Head, MD

[Read more →]

“The bay’s last crab harvest was about 39 million pounds, about 60 percent less than in 1983.   Its last oyster harvest was about 470,000 pounds, or 96 percent less.  This summer, about 17 percent of its water had lowered oxygen levels.  That was the cheeriest indicator of the three: After a quarter-century of work, the [...]

[Read more →]