Publications

This management strategy outlines approaches for achieving the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement's Brook Trout Outcome.

View document [PDF, 1.1 MB] 2025-2035 Brook Trout Outcome Management Strategy

This management strategy outlines approaches for achieving the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement's Fish Passage Outcome.

View document [PDF, 561.2 KB] 2015-2025 Fish Passage Outcome Management Strategy

This management strategy outlines approaches for achieving the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement's SAV Outcome.

View document [PDF, 519.6 KB] 2024-2025 SAV Outcome Management Strategy

This document includes current efforts and management approaches for reducing the abundance and mitigating the spread and ecological impacts of invasive catfishes in the Chesapeake Bay.

View document [PDF] 2020 Invasive Catfish Management Strategy

Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of citizens, including energy use, automobile emissions, and urban and suburban runoff. These issues force individuals, businesses, and communities to make hard decisions, and require a thoughtful public engagement strategy that begins in the schools with our youngest citizens.

View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Mid-Atlantic Elementary and Secondary Environmental Literacy Strategy

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate summer flounder stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their commercial and recreational harvest and utilization over time.

View document [PDF] Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan

A report on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab resource in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing the opportunity for commercial, recreational and medical usage over time.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay & Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and spot Management Plan is to protect the croaker and spot resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their usage over time.

View document [PDF] Atlantic Croaker & Spot Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate weakfish and spotted seatrout stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their commercial and recreational harvest and utilization over time.

View document [PDF] Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan