Their mission: to conduct the annual blue crab winter dredge survey, a critical effort to estimate the population of Maryland’s state crustacean in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

Maryland’s natural resources department is incentivizing commercial watermen and charter boat captains to capture blue catfish in order to reduce the abundance of the invasive species in the ...

Maryland’s groundbreaking work in mariculture and blue tech has fully restored the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster and blue crab populations, revitalizing the state’s fishing industry. Fresh, affordable ...