Habitat Goal Implementation Team (GIT 2) Publications

Factors Influencing the Headwaters, Nontidal, Tidal and Mainstem Fish Habitat Function

Publication date: October 11, 2018

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.

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

Publication date: November 28, 2017

This 2017 addendum provides previously undocumented features of the procedures for assessing attainment of the Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment procedures.

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Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Outcome Justification

Publication date: June 13, 2024

This fact sheet explains why the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement includes a Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Outcome and how this outcome was developed.

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Wetlands Outcome Justification

Publication date: June 13, 2024

This fact sheet explains why the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement includes a Wetlands Outcome and how this outcome was developed.

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