Bay grasses, crabs and rockfish are showing signs of resilience in the Chesapeake Bay, which continues to suffer from poor water quality as a growing population stresses it, according to a report released Thursday.
The bay barometer provides a snapshot of water data from 2011 and 2012.
The report by the Chesapeake Bay Program says grasses are one of the success stories. Grasses in the large Susquehanna Flats grass bed near the top of the bay not only survived Tropical Storm Lee in 2011, but those in the mid-Bay have seen dramatic increases. However, only 34 percent of the bay met standards for water oxygen levels, and water clarity was very poor.
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3 comments:
Whaaat!? How could this be? There's a farm in Berlin that is the epicenter of environmental evil! (accordidng to the dingbats)
This past fishing season was the best I have seen in many years.Early in the spring you could see the bottom in as much as 6 feet of water.
I hope those water keepers have to pay.They are concerned more about destroying people and business than the environment .Watch out for the drone spy planes.
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