The Chesapeake Bay Program is pleased to announce the release of the annual 2024-2025 Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / March 6, 2026 / The Menhaden Fisheries Coalition strongly criticizes the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Will Poston for exploiting the recent fish wash-up from Cape ...

A bill that would have required recreational crabbers to add terrapin by-catch devices onto their pots to prevent accidental drownings of the reptiles failed to pass out of the Virginia Senate, ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials received approval March 11, 2026, from the General Assembly’s ...

A new proposal in Annapolis could change how Maryland manages one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most iconic fish by limiting the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ regulations on striped bass.

The state's rockfish season will start in April as scheduled, after it was almost derailed this week by a legislative ...

Warmer weather has been inviting anglers to enjoy fishing across Maryland. Trout stockings are providing good trout fishing in the waters that are open for fishing, yellow perch are beginning their ...

A Maryland General Assembly joint committee has approved the Department of Natural Resources proposed changes to the upcoming striped bass fishing season, including a full closure in August.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed after part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed in January, sending raw sewage into the Potomac River. After weather delays, repair work has resumed.

A legislative committee is holding up new rockfish regulations from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources that would open a catch-and-release fishery in April for the first time in several ...

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy gives his homily during a Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church in Newtowne near Leonardtown, Maryland, on March 11, 2026, on the first anniversary of his installation as the ...

Elk Neck State Park in North East, Maryland offers exactly that experience, with over 250 campsites spread across 2,188 acres ...