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Atlantic sturgeon have been known to reach 12 feet and 500 pounds. They were prominent in the records of colonial Jamestown.

Keeping land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed undeveloped, as farmers do, helps maintain cleaner waters.

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VIMS dead-zone report card on conditions in the Chesapeake Bay indicates that the overall severity of hypoxia was slightly higher in 2021.

The Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal is a weekly print newspaper and online news source serving Virginias Middle Peninsula.

The annual report of “dead-zone” conditions in the Chesapeake Bay from William & Marys Virginia Institute of Marine Science indicates the overall severity of hypoxia was slightly higher than usual during 2021, due largely to the relatively early onset and late termination of low-oxygen waters.

This year, the oxygen-deprived “dead zone” that plagues the Chesapeake Bay every summer was much larger than in 2020, but similar in size with those of other recent years. This

The Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners, including the University of Michigan, released information today on the state of the 2021 Chesapeake Bay "dead zone." While last year's dead zone was the second smallest observed since 1985, this year's assessment paints a more complex picture of the bay'

This year, the Chesapeake Bay Program partners found the size of the bay’s dead zone to be “average” — one year after its size was the second-smallest recorded since 1985.