After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 ...

Turn up the music, gather the family and get ready for a packed weekend across Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties. ZZ ...

New federal funding aims to expand markets for invasive blue catfish while supporting Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts.

Following an intensive enforcement surge across mid-Atlantic waterways over the Labor Day weekend, U.S. Coast Guard East District law enforcement crews conducted 114 safety boardings, terminated seven ...

Many families are making plans for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, and hopefully the outdoors and fishing will be part of the ...

Many families are making plans for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, and hopefully the outdoors and fishing will be part of the ...

Fishermen on board the Golden Eagle got a close up look at a pair of one the ocean's more unusual fish the mola mola or ocean ...

Late one afternoon toward the end of August, Don Riepe maneuvered his 22-foot skiff around the marshy islands of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, where he had been the manager for 25 years.

Chef Brad Leone ventures into the Chesapeake Bay to learn the traditional secrets of Maryland crab fishing. Putin’s battlefield boasts collapse in humiliating fashion ‘Definitely a threat’: GOP women ...

Maryland anglers have been busy fishing for a variety of species this week. Chesapeake Channa is one of the fish that anglers have come to enjoy during the August striped bass closure. The Maryland ...

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A blue heron sneaks a menhaden from a bushel on June 6 in Maryland. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Mark Robichaux is right about the urgency of protecting Atlantic menhaden in his Aug. 19 ...