Fish Habitat Action Team Publications

This report presents methods for a pilot assessment of the condition of fish habitats in both the estuarine and inland portions of Chesapeake Bay rivers.

View document [PDF, 7.3 MB] Pilot Framework for Fish Habitat Assessments Across Tidal and Non-Tidal Waters in the Patuxent River Basin

This report summarizes expert feedback on the potential structure of a pilot framework for fish habitat assessment.

View document [PDF, 13.0 MB] Recommendations for Conducting Fish Habitat Assessments in Tidal Waters of the Chesapeake Bay

This document was presented to the Management Board as part of the 2019-2021 Strategy Review System cycle.

View document [PDF, 753.6 KB] 2021 Fish Habitat Presentation

This document was presented to the Management Board as part of the 2019-2021 Strategy Review System cycle.

View document [PDF, 179.5 KB] 2021 Fish Habitat Narrative Analysis

These fact sheets demonstrate the economic value of fisheries resources in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

View document [ZIP, 1.9 MB] Hooked on Clean Water Fisheries Fact Sheets

This report contains targeted interviews focused on stakeholders whose management or project jurisdictions were in three habitat types: non-tidal, tidal fresh, and tidal estuarine waters of the Chesapeake Bay. These stakeholders included fishery/resource managers, land-use planners, and environmental consultants/reviewers.

This report summarizes efforts to synthesize shoreline impacts on forage species and propose a threshold for shoreline hardening.

View document [PDF, 4.6 MB] Threshold Effects of Altered Shorelines and Other Stressors on Forage Species in the Chesapeake Bay

The final report for a GIT-funded study compiling and evaluating available data for a Chesapeake Bay regional fish habitat assessment.

View document [PDF] Inventory & Evaluation of Environmental and Biological Response Data for Fish Habitat Assessment

This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop to identify the necessary information and analytical approaches needed to assess the condition and vulnerability of fish habitat in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

View document [PDF, 2.8 MB] Factors Influencing the Headwaters, Nontidal, Tidal and Mainstem Fish Habitat Function

A compilation of fish habitat spatial and data tools.

View document [PDF, 152.3 KB] Fish Habitat Spatial and Data Tools Inventory

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