Publications

The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a matrix compiling information on habitat requirements, stressors, and threats for egg and larval life stages of lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

View document [PDF, 202.8 KB] Chesapeake Bay Species Habitat Fecundity Matrix

The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a matrix of available habitat requirements, threats and stressors for lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

View document [PDF, 303.9 KB] Species Habitat Matrix

The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team (Fisheries GIT) of the Chesapeake Bay Program was allocated Tetra Tech (Tt) time to support Management Strategies under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Agreement. The Fish Habitat Action Team under the Fisheries GIT requested Tt develop a detailed literature review for lesser-studied species across the Chesapeake Bay.

View document [PDF, 763.5 KB] Chesapeake Bay Species Habitat Literature Review

A continuation of An Urgent Call to Action on the future of clane water if actions are not taken now.

View document [PDF, 1.8 MB] An Urgent Call to Action Part II 2009

The amount of nutrients entering our waters has dramatically escalated over the past 50 years, and nutrients now pose significant water quality and public health concerns across the United States. In terms of growing drinking water impacts, expanding impairment of incland waters, and compromised coastal estuaries, nitrogen and phosphorus we face in the21st century (Beosch 1999). Current efforts to control nutrients have been hard-fought but collectivel inadequate at both a statewaide and national scale.

View document [PDF, 7.6 MB] An Urgent Call to Action Part I 2009

This report summarizes efforts to develop a suite of indicators for forage groups and to quantify the magnitude of prey consumed by six predator fishes in the Chesapeake Bay.

View document [PDF, 2.0 MB] Forage Indicators and Consumption Profiles for Chesapeake Bay Fishes

Data presented in this report were collected during the eighth year of a research program designed to assess ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay. The goals of this study were to identify toxic ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of standardized water column and sediment toxicity tests concurrently with fish and benthic community assessments (index of biotic integrity approaches). The toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the late summer/early fall of1998 nat tenstation in the following areas: Choptank River and Anacostia River.

View document [PDF, 1.2 MB] Ambient Toxicity Testing in Chesapeake Bay_Year 8 Report Part II 2000

Data presented in this report were collected during the eighth year of a research program designed to assess ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay. The goals of this study were to identify toxic ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of standardized water column and sediment toxicity tests concurrently with fish and benthic community assessments (index of biotic integrity approaches). The toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the late summer/early fall of 1998 at ten stations in the following areas: Choptank River and Anacostia River.

View document [PDF, 7.6 MB] Ambient Toxicity Testing in Chesapeake Bay_Year 8 Report Part I 2000

This is a continuation from Part I of the same title.

View document [PDF, 534.5 KB] Urban Watershed Forestry Manual Part II 2005

View document [PDF, 534.5 KB] 2011 Achieveing Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals in the Chesapeake Bay 2011