Past Publications

Habitat Goal Implementation Team (GIT 2)

  • Factors Influencing the Headwaters, Nontidal, Tidal, and Mainstem Fish Habitat Function in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Application to Restoration and Management Decision

    Final report from the STAC workshop held April 25-26, 2018 in Richmond, VA. The workshop’s objective was to identify the necessary information and analytical approaches needed to assess the condition and vulnerability of fish habitat in...

  • November 28, 2017

    Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries 2017 Technical Addendum

    A total of seven addendum documents have been published by EPA since April 2003. Four addenda were published documenting detailed refinements to the criteria attainment and assessment procedures (U.S. EPA 2004a, 2007a, 2008, 2010)...

  • November 01, 1998

    Chesapeake Bay Living Resources - 1998

    Then Living Resources Subcommittee (LRSc) is committed to the restoration, enhancement, protection and management of the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay.  Living resources include fish, shellfish, birds and waterfowl, as well...

  • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Outcome Justification

    Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Outcome: Sustain and increase the habitat benefits of SAV (underwater grasses) in the Chesapeake Bay. Achieve and sustain the ultimate outcome of 185,000 acres of SAV Bay-wide necessary for a...

  • Tree Canopy Outcome Justification

    Tree Canopy Outcome: Continually increase urban tree canopy capacity to provide air quality, water quality and habitat benefits throughout the watershed. Expand urban tree canopy by 2,400 acres by 2025.

  • Forest Buffer Outcome Justification

    Forest Buffer Outcome: Continually increase the capacity of forest buffers to provide water quality and habitat benefits throughout the watershed. Restore 900 miles per year of riparian forest buffer and conserve existing buffers...

  • Fish Passage Outcome Justification

    Fish Passage Outcome: Continually increase available habitat to support sustainable migratory fish populations in freshwater rivers and streams. By 2025, restore historical fish migratory routes by opening 1,000 additional stream...

  • Brook Trout Outcome Justification

    Brook Trout Outcome: Restore and sustain naturally reproducing brook trout populations in Chesapeake headwater streams with an eight percent increase in occupied habitat by 2025.

  • Stream Health Outcome Justification

    Stream Health Outcome: Continually improve stream health and function throughout the watershed. Improve health and function of 10% of stream miles above the 2008 baseline for the watershed.

  • Black Duck Outcome Justification

    Black Duck Outcome: By 2025, restore, enhance and preserve wetland habitats that support a wintering population of 100,000 black ducks, a species representative of the health of tidal marshes across the watershed. Refine population...

  • Wetlands Outcome Justification

    Wetlands Outcome: Continually increase the capacity of wetlands to provide water quality and habitat benefits throughout the watershed. Create or re-establish 85,000 acres of tidal and non-tidal wetlands and enhance the function of an...

  • May 01, 1991

    Chesapeake Bay Coordinated Split Sample Program Implementation Guidelines (Revision 3).

    The major objective of the Coordinated Split Sample Program is to establish a measure of comparability between sampling and analytical operations for water quality monitoring basin wide. The second objective is to evaluate the...

  • January 01, 1995

    1995-Synthesis of Nutrient and Sediment Data for Watersheds within the Chesapeake Bay Drainage Basin

    Documents the findings of the two-year information gathering process of the strategy reevaluation but also recommends an approach for undertaking future toxics reduction and prevention actions in the Bay watershed.