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

Adoption Statement - Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan

Publication date: 6/4/1997 | Type of document: Adoption Statement

The 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan is a guide to conserving and protecting the blue crab resource for long-term ecological, economic and social benefits

Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan (Report)

Publication date: 6/1/1997 | Type of document: Management Plan

The 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan incorporates new information and management strategies into the 1989 fishery management plan.

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.

Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan

Publication date: 5/1/1998 | Type of document: Management Plan

Incorporates new information from the first Baywide stock assessment and recommends additional management strategies. Plan recommendations to protect the health of the blue crab stock which has the highest monetary value of any Bay commercial fishery

Black Drum Fishery Management Plan

Publication date: 5/1/1994 | Type of document: Report

The 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan incorporates new information and management strategies into the 1989 fishery management plan.

Chesapeake Bay & Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan

Publication date: 12/1/1994 | Type of document: Management Plan

The goal of the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab resource in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing the opportunity for commercial, recreational and medical usage over time.

Blue Ribbon Finance Panel: Seeking Solutions to Secure the Bays Future (109 KB)

Publication date: 12/10/2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

On December 9, 2003, the Chesapeake Executive Council called for the establishment of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel to seek new and innovative ways to finance and secure the Bay's future. The Blue Ribbon Panel has been asked to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make recommendations regarding other actions at the federal, state and local level to the Executive Council.

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel Members (160 KB)

Publication date: 3/11/2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

The Chesapeake Executive Council selected fifteen members to a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel charged with developing innovative solutions to financing the multi-billion dollar Bay restoration effort. The 15-member panel includes high-level business leaders of major companies, financial and economic experts, and stakeholders with experience in storm water, agriculture, air emission and wastewater treatment plant funding and pollution control.

Directive 04-1: Funding the Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (111 KB)

Publication date: 1/10/2005 | Type of document: Directive

In December 2003, the Executive Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to establish and convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue ribbon panel to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make recommendations regarding other actions at the federal, state and local level to the Executive council.

Exploring the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan

Publication date: 1/1/1991 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

Purpose of Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab's ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast through improved knowledge of stocks and the integration of specific habitat actions thus providing for its commercial, recreational and medical usage over time

Saving a National Treasure: Financing the Cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay (4.14 MB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 10/1/2004 | Type of document: Report

This report summaries the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel. The panel was established to identify funding sources sufficient to implement basinwide clean-up plans so that the Bay and its tidal tributaries would be restored sufficiently by 2010 to remove them from the list of impaired waters under the Clean Water Act.

Directive 04-2: Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps (224 KB)

Publication date: 1/10/2005 | Type of document: Directive

This Directive addresses next steps, each of which will advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and identifies measures to implement several Panel recommendations upon which action can be taken quickly.

2002-The State of the Chesapeake Bay: A Report to the Citizens of the Bay Region

Publication date: 7/1/2002 | Type of document: Environmental Assessments

In this publication, we report on the status of our progress toward the goals we set or renewed in Chesapeake 2000. Evaluating the condition of the Chesapeake Bay is a complex process that must include careful examination of the status and trends of numerous environmental indicators

Appendices To Nutrient Reduction Technology Cost Estimation for Point-Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (1.64 MB)

Publication date: 11/1/2002 | Type of document: Report

This document contains Appendixes to the NRT cost report titled "Nutrient Reduction Technology Cost Estimations for Point-Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed".

Chesapeake Update Newsletter - Issue 1 - January 2005 (5.7 MB)

Publication date: 1/1/2005 | Type of document: Brochure

This newsletter summarizes four important water quality events that affected the Chesapeake Bay during 2004.

Storm Water Management and the Chesapeake Bay (224 KB)

Publication date: 9/1/2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

This backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about storm water management in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

New Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Criteria: Dissolved Oxygen (107 KB)

Publication date: 4/14/2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet

This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the dissolved oxygen criteria developed in 2001

Chesapeake 2000 Agreement (94 KB) (Order hard-copy)

Publication date: 6/28/2000 | Type of document: Agreement

By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to nurture and sustain a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Partnership and to achieve the goals set both in the subsequent sections. Without such a partnership, future challenges will not be met. With it, the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay will be ensured for generations to come.

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model Application & Calculation of Nutrient & Sediment Loadings - Appendix F: Phase IV Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model Point Source Loads (2.16 MB)

Publication date: 8/15/1998 | Type of document: Report

Appendix F documents in detail the Phase IV Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model point source nutrient data assimilation process for the facilities located in signatory and non-signatory jurisdictions of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This document includes a description of the data sources, the methods of assimilation, types of analysis performed to determine nutrient reduction estimates, and trends in nutrient loadings discharged to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Phase IV Watershed Model Point Source Database includes information for approximately 612 (the exact number varying depending on the year) active industrial, municipal, and federal facilities discharging directly to surface ...