If the guy in the cubicle next to you is wearing a PFD today, he’s not guilty of a serious fashion faux pas, nor does he mistakenly think he’s working on the Titanic. He’s just one of many Maryland boaters participating in Wear Your Life Jacket To Work Day. The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) Read More...
In response to the latest winter dredge survey’s (WDS) report that overall crab populations had decreased by nearly one third over last year’s numbers, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources has lowered the catch limits for female crabs on the Chesapeake Bay. Most crucial was the WDS’s findings that juvenile crab numbers had plummeted as Read More...
“Hot off the press” is what they say, and while we can’t guarantee that your issue of PropTalk will still be warm when you pick it up at one of our 850 distribution spots starting today, we can say with some certainly that there’s good stuff inside. Toss your New York Times this Sunday and Read More...
May 12, 2013 | By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun EWELL — — Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes Read More...
It’s becoming a typical sight on the Baltimore skyline: coming into town via 395. you glance over the guard rail expecting to see the Chesapeake and instead see a skyscraper down below. But that isn’t a skyscraper, it’s a cruise ship.
In honor of Mother’s Day weekend, let’s take a moment to recognize our lady anglers. Let’s start with apparel, because what lady doesn’t want to look good as she lands a big rockfish? One avid fisherwoman tells us she wears a lot of clothing from Columbia, in part because many of their fabrics have ultra-violet Read More...
It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, and hopefully you have something planned for the special mom in your life. Maybe she’s your wife and the mother of your children, or maybe your mom lives close enough to celebrate the day together. No matter what kind of son or husband you are, it’s important that you score Read More...
We sure hope we never need this ship on the Bay. Check out this great time-lapse of the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer during your lunch break as it travels through the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes, with a surprise at the end. Here’s some details on the Read More...
While generally there are no specific geographic boundaries for the portion of the Chesapeake many folks call the “Middle Bay,” most people consider the expanses of water south of the Bay Bridge and north of the Patuxent River part of that region. And a beautiful region it is.
From the Field: Winter dredge survey counts Chesapeake Bay crabs from Chesapeake Bay Program on Vimeo. You might have heard that the annual Winter Crab Dredge Survey, conducted by Maryland and Virginia officials, was released a couple of weeks ago and that while the numbers show a sharp decline in the overall population of Read More...
