In the Chesapeake Bay, summertime striped bass fishing is in hot water
Chesapeake Bay anglers are facing a stark future — a future in which summertime fishing for striped bass, once a hallmark of Bay fishing, may become a distant memory.
Chesapeake Bay anglers are facing a stark future — a future in which summertime fishing for striped bass, once a hallmark of Bay fishing, may become a distant memory.
The Aerospace States Association (ASA) is an organization of Lieutenant Governors, Governor-appointed delegates and state legislators.
It’s August 2019 and heat radiates from the expanse of sunbaked “mud” that covers two-thirds of Swan Island, a once half-drowned 25-acre island at the southern edge of Martin National Wildlife Refuge in the Chesapeake Bay.
Newport News, Norfolk and Portsmouth will receive $1.5 million to support projects through the Port Host Communities Revitalization Fund.
A new analysis from Oceana finds that hundreds of boats were speeding through zones in the Virginia Beach area in the weeks prior to a deadly boat strike.
This January was the warmest on record in seven states, including the entirety of New England.
The ocean has become an increasingly greedy neighbor, forcing parts of the Outer Banks in North Carolina to retreat more than 200 feet in the last two decades.
At least twice last summer, industrial menhaden harvester Omega Protein littered the beaches along Virginia’s Eastern Shore with dead Atlantic menhaden.
Wildlife is disappearing at an alarming rate around the world, in the oceans and on land.
Like birds who migrate to warmer weather, the North Atlantic Right Whale is also moving on their East Coast migratory route to warmer coastal waters – and government intervention would be helpful to protect the endangered species from deadly boat collisions, according to Oceana.
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