Publications

This two-year work plan outlines the actions the workgroup will undertake to support progress toward the Brook Trout Outcome.

View document [PDF, 200.1 KB] 2024-2025 Brook Trout Workgroup Workplan

Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of citizens, including energy use, automobile emissions, and urban and suburban runoff. These issues force individuals, businesses, and communities to make hard decisions, and require a thoughtful public engagement strategy that begins in the schools with our youngest citizens.

View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Mid-Atlantic Elementary and Secondary Environmental Literacy Strategy

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate summer flounder stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their commercial and recreational harvest and utilization over time.

View document [PDF] Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan

A report on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab resource in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing the opportunity for commercial, recreational and medical usage over time.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay & Atlantic Coast Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and spot Management Plan is to protect the croaker and spot resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their usage over time.

View document [PDF] Atlantic Croaker & Spot Fishery Management Plan

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate weakfish and spotted seatrout stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits from their commercial and recreational harvest and utilization over time.

View document [PDF] Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Eel Management Plan is to manage the American eel harvest in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries so that harvest does not exceed the reproductive capacity of the population to maintain its size from year to year.

View document [PDF] American Eel Fishery Management Plan-1993

Stock assessment results indicate that black sea bass are overharvested. The goal of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Fishery Management Plan (FMP) is to

View document [PDF] Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan

This document is available electronically only. The Plan will guide the protection and restoration of native waterfowl species using the Chesapeake Bay, its tidal tributaries, and adjacent uplands. The Plan emphasizes the protection and restoration of habitats on which these species depend.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay Waterfowl Policy and Management Plan