Doug Fischer of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission holds a Chesapeake logperch caught for hatchery rearing efforts. The fish is listed as threatened in Maryland and Pennsylvania, the only two states where it still exists. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Fischer, second from left, leads a team using mild electrical currents to gently stun and collect logperch in Octoraro Creek for state and federal hatchery rearing efforts. Researchers believe the creek served as a refuge for the Chesapeake logperch when the Susquehanna became too polluted in the 20th century. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Fischer counts males and females destined for hatcheries operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. "The goal would be to get them to reproduce on their own and then colonize the rest of the extirpation zone," Fischer said. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
White plastic tree tubes protect saplings planted by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay along Leibs Creek in York County, Pa., under a NFWF grant to improve stream habitat for the Chesapeake logperch. Riparian forest buffers help stabilize stream banks, reducing erosion and absorbing pollution from nearby farm fields. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Jim Kauffman of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay removes invasive plants surrounding a sapling in its tree tube near Leibs Creek. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
An eastern bluebird hunts amid young trees planted on Tim White's property in York County, Pa. Though planted to support the Chesapeake logperch, the forest buffer will ultimately support a wide array of wildlife both upstream and downstream in the Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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