Recent Chesapeake Bay Articles

The Fish Nobody Eats That Everything Else Does Ask a striper fisherman on the Chesapeake what he thinks of menhaden and you will get an answer closer to reverence than to the shrug most Americans would give. The fish is oily, bony, and nearly inedible on a dinner plate. It is also among the most i

Frankenfish Rising: How Bowfishing Became the Front Line Against the Chesapeake's Most Notorious Invader After dark on the Potomac River, somewhere near Quantico, Virginia, the water tells a different story than it does in daylight. A boat moves slowly through shallow tributaries. The river buzzes