Published:
February 1, 1997
Originator:
Chesapeake Bay Program
EPA Number:
EPA 903-R-97-004

A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Basin Species 1997 is an update of a 1992 document published by the Environmental Protection Agency-Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBP/TRS 70/92). It provides a list of aquatic-associated organisms found in recent decades in the Chesapeake Bay Basin. the list was originally extracted from monitoring ndata collected by federal and state agencies and private instititions. An extensive search identified other available aquatic Chesapeake Bay species information. Species data were collected from the following agencies:

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

Maryland Department of the environment

Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences

Species identified by these resources were verified and merged witjh:

preexisting EPA Chesapeake Bay species list.