Researchers with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) are asking for your help in tracking ...

The Menhaden Fisheries Coalition says the Chesapeake Bay Foundation mischaracterized the survey's findings and omitted ...

A May 2025 survey by Dr. Bryan Watts of the College of William and Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology found a 90% ...

New research indicates concern for Virginia’s Eastern Shore osprey population due to lack of prey available in the area.

The osprey population on the Eastern Shore has dropped to just 18 birds, and scientists at William & Mary’s Center for ...

The osprey population on the Eastern Shore has dropped to just 18 birds, and scientists at the College of William & Mary’s ...

The osprey population along an important habitat corridor in Virginia is nearing “complete collapse,” local researchers ...

Letter writers discuss declining menhaden in Chesapeake Bay, basic freedoms in U.S. and ‘reality’ of Donald Trump’s ...

A 90 percent decline in nesting osprey on Virginia’s Delmarva Peninsula, documented in a May 2025 survey by Dr. Bryan Watts ...

The Chesapeake Bay also holds the highest population of osprey in the world. Virginia is the only state along the Atlantic coast that allows menhaden reduction fishing in its waters.