Chesapeake Bay Habitat Restoration: A Framework for Action (14.04 MB)

Publication date: 10/1/1995 | Type of document: Report

This document is available electronically only. This document addresses the Chesapeake Bay priority habitat areas, and habitation restoration implementations.

Riparian Areas: A Strategy for Habitat Restoration

Publication date: 1/1/1994 | Type of document: Report

Two overall goals are suggested to drive habitat restoration efforts within the Chesapeake Bay Program: 1) to expand the forest cover along streams, rivers, and shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed; 2) to increase the quality of instream habitat for migratory and resident fish through improved water temperature, cover, pool and spawning habitat.

Directive 94-3: Framework for Habitat Restoration (27 KB)

Publication date: 10/14/1994 | Type of document: Directive

This Directive addresses historical habitats in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the need to accelerate efforts to restore habitat across the basin to benefit living resources and directs the Bay Program to implement an integrated and comprehensive approach.

Adoption Statement - Aquatic Reef Habitat Plan (13 KB)

Publication date: 12/1/1994 | Type of document: Adoption Statement

The purpose of this Plan is to guide the development and implementation of a regional program to rebuild and restore reefs as habitat for oysters and other ecologically valuable aquatic species.

Chesapeake Bay Dissolved Oxygen Goals for Restoration of Living Resource Habitat (3.54 MB)

Publication date: 2/1/1993 | Type of document: Report

A Synthesis of Living Resource Habitat Requirements with Guidelines for Their Use in Evaluating Model Results and Monitoring Information

Ecosystem Effects of Oyster Restoration in Virginia Habitat and Lease Areas (1.23 MB)

Publication date: 6/1/2006 | Type of document: Report

This report is the third in a series in which the Chesapeake Bay Environment Model Package was used to assess the environmental benefits of oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the effects of oyster restoration to all potential Virginia oyster habitat were investigated.

Adoption Statement - Fish Passage Goals (187 KB)

Publication date: 1/10/2005 | Type of document: Adoption Statement

In support of our continuing pursuit of our shard vision of a Chesapeake Bay system with abundant, diverse populations of living resources, we reaffirm our commitment to protect and restore riverine aquatic habitats of the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the benefit of migratory and resident fishes and other aquatic living resources.

Blue Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (555 KB)

Publication date: 7/7/2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

This fact sheet overviews blue crab anatomy, life cycle, habitat and current status of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population

Aquatic Reef Habitat Management Plan

Publication date: 12/1/1994 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

Designed to improve the ecology of Chesapeake Bay; the ecological value of the oyster resource; to restore, augment, and set aside hard substrate on the Bay bottom to enhance reef community development and improve aquatic habitat; and to increase the stock of oysters in Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay Dissolved Oxygen Goal for Restoration of Living Resource Habitats

Publication date: 12/1/1992 | Type of document: Report

To show support of these goals, the Chesapeake Executive Council (CEC) made commitments to "develop and adopt guidelines for the protection of water quality and habitat conditions necessary to support the living resources found in the Chesapeake Bay system.

Chesapeake Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Water Quality and Habitat Based Requirements and Restoration Targets: A second Technical Synthesis

Publication date: 9/1/2000 | Type of document: Report

The second SAV Technical Synthesis revises and updates the first synthesis, by providing new light requirements for SAV through the water column and at the leaf surface, providing diagnostic tools for their application and interpretation, and identifying preliminary sets of physical, chemical, and other biological habitat requirements.

Chesapeake Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Habitat Requirements and Restoration Targets: A Technical Synthesis

Publication date: 12/1/1992 | Type of document: Report

The Chesapeake Executive Council's adoption of a Chesapeake Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Policy and an Implementation Plan for the SAV Policy highlighted not only the need to develop SAV habitat requirements but also the need for baywide restoration goals for SAV distribution, density, and species diversity. In response to the commitments described in the SAV Policy Implementation Plan, a working group of scientists and managers produced this document.

Oyster Fishery Management Plan (1989)

Publication date: 7/1/1989 | Type of document: Management Plan

The purpose of the Plan is to manage the oyster resource by restoring oyster habitat, controlling fishing mortality, promoting aquaculture and continuing the repletion programs.

Oyster Fishery Management Plan (1994)

Publication date: 1/1/1994 | Type of document: Management Plan

The goal of the 1994 Oyster Fishery Management Plan is to enhance the production of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem by restoring habitat, controlling fishing mortality, promoting aquaculture and continuing the repletion programs.

Chesapeake Bay: Introduction to an Ecosystem 2000 (2.51 MB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 4/1/2000 | Type of document: Report

A comprehensive overview of the geology and waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its habitats, biological communities and living resources. The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship

Directive 93-4: Fish Passage Goals (13 KB)

Publication date: 12/27/1993 | Type of document: Directive

Overview of the Fish Passage Strategy provisions that will enable anadromous fish to have access to a multitude of passages in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, thus providing abundant spawning habitat.

Adoption Statement - Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan, Amendment (118 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 12/9/2003 | Type of document: Adoption Statement

The adoption statement was to implement the management strategies and actions recommended by this amendment to protect blue crab spawning potential, reduce exploitation, increase our biological understanding of blue crabs through monitoring, identify and protect blue crab habitat, and incorporate ecosystem processes.

Chesapeake Bay Ambient Toxicity Assessment Workshop Report

Publication date: 5/1/1990 | Type of document: Report

This document is a first approach to develop consensus protocols for the use of biological indicators to monitor the effects of toxic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay habitats important to living resources.

Chesapeake Bay Ambient Toxicity Assessment Workshop Report

Publication date: 5/1/1990 | Type of document: Report

This document is a first approach to develop consensus protocols for the use of biological indicators to monitor the effects of toxic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay habitats important to living resources.

Fish Passage Goals

Publication date: 1/1/1993 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

Chesapeake Bay Executive Council Directive: Council endorses a 1,356.75 mile major tributary target for blockage removal in ten years, restoring critical mainstem habitat