The brook trout is a brilliantly colored fish with a dark, olive green back with pale, worm-like markings; bluish sides with yellow and red spots; and a pale, yellowish-orange belly. (Photo by Steve Droter/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Flock of Canada geese flying at sunrise, Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary. (View on Flickr)
Dustin Wichterman, Potomac Headwaters Project Coordinator with Trout Unlimited, fishes for brook trout in Pendleton County, W.Va., on Oct. 2, 2012. (Photo by Steve Droter/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
The Choptank Wetlands Preserve on the Choptank River in Easton, Md., on June 18, 2010. (Photo by Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Microplastics from the Corsica River are pictured at the laboratory of Dr. Lance Yonkos in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., on Feb. 6, 2015. Microplastics were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Marine Debris Program in 2011 via a manta trawl in four tributaries feeding into the Chesapeake Bay. A study led by Yonkos reports that the prevalence of microplastics in the watershed is positively correlated with population density and proportion of development. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Microplastics from the Rhode River are pictured at the laboratory of Dr. Lance Yonkos in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., on Feb. 6, 2015. Microplastics were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Marine Debris Program in 2011 via a manta trawl in four tributaries feeding into the Chesapeake Bay. A study led by Yonkos reports that the prevalence of microplastics in the watershed is positively correlated with population density and proportion of development.. (View on Flickr)
Dustin Wichterman, Potomac Headwaters Project Coordinator with Trout Unlimited, fishes for brook trout in Pendleton County, W.Va., on May 2, 2014. (Photo by Steve Droter/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Dustin Wichterman, Potomac Headwaters Project Coordinator with Trout Unlimited, fishes for brook trout in Pendleton County, W.Va., on May 2, 2014. (Photo by Steve Droter/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Researchers from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) take water quality measurements, including dissolved oxygen, aboard the R/V Rachel Carson in the mainstem of the Chesapeake Bay on Aug. 23, 2010. (Photo by Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
A view of the Nanticoke River looking southwest shows wetlands just north of Nanticoke Wildlife Management Area in Wicomico County, Md., on June 18, 2010. The area is part of the 16-000-acre Nanticoke Unit of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which the Fish & Wildlife Service is approved to acquire. (Photo by Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
Microplastics from the Patapsco River are pictured at the laboratory of Dr. Lance Yonkos in the Department of Environmental Science & Technology at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md., on Feb. 6, 2015. Microplastics were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Marine Debris Program in 2011 via a manta trawl in four tributaries feeding into the Chesapeake Bay. A study led by Yonkos reports that the prevalence of microplastics in the watershed is positively correlated with population density and proportion of development.. (View on Flickr)
Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is operated by DC Water in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2011. Blue Plains is the largest treatment plant in the world, able to treat 384 million gallons of sewage a day. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
A young blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) collected from Poplar Harbor. (View on Flickr)
A discarded plastic water bottle floats on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, 2014.. (View on Flickr)
A sample of healthy farm soil. Chris Lawrence, not pictured, an agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, lead an interactive presentation at a Chesapeake Bay Program Principals' Staff Committe event at Midway Farms in Richmond County, Va., on June 18, 2008. Lawrence demonstrated conservation tillage systems and soil quality improvement practices, and how they can address water quality goals through federal, state and local conservation programs.. (View on Flickr)
USFWS biologist Steve Minkkinen holds an American eel captured for tagging in Buffalo Creek, Pa. 02. (View on Flickr)
A pair of mating blue crabs, known as a "doubler," in a dip net in Kent Island, Md., on Aug. 27, 2010. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program). (View on Flickr)
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