Larry, a male diamondback terrapin, lives at the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center in Tilghman Island, Md., on June 19, 2020. (Photo by Carlin Stiehl/Chesapeake Bay Program)
Eastern lampmussels displaying fish mimicry, an aid to reproduction, are seen at Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Bladensburg, Md., on March 29, 2024. The freshwater mussels were hatchery-raised and grown in floating baskets on the Anacostia River by the Anacostia Watershed Society. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
American eels are elongated fish that can vary in color from green or yellowish-brown to a darker shade of almost black. Above, an American eel is caught during the blue crab winter dredge survey in the Nanticoke River on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
American shad larvae start to hatch from eggs collected from the Potomac River at Van Dyke Research Station for Anadromous Fishes in Port Royal, Pa., on May 18, 2015. The station held roughly 2.2 million American shad fry in 2015, which was down from the year before, according to Fisheries Biologist Joshua Tryninewski. The station can hold roughly 10–20 million fry. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A juvenile diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is released by Chesapeake Bay Program staff at Ferry Point Park in Kent Narrows, Md., on July 17, 2010. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)
A native brook trout acclimates after being released into a nearly one-mile restored section of Piney Run in Purcellville, Va., on Jan. 8, 2021. It may be the first time in over a century that brook trout have existed in the waterway, according to Joe Bane, operations manager of Loudoun Mitigation Bank, LLC, who has led the restoration effort on property that has been in his family for generations, and that is conserved through the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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