http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Mon, 20 May 2013 01:35:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/25/report-smallmouth-bass-bay-health-indicator/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/04/25/report-smallmouth-bass-bay-health-indicator/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:48:32 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=238428 Health problems suffered by smallmouth bass in the lower Susquehanna show the river should be declared impaired, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said Thursday. The foundation released a report on the popular sport fish that it says is an indicator of the health of freshwater rivers and streams in the bay watershed. Smallmouth bass are sensitive [...]

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]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/17/western-maryland-fish-pond-drained-due-to-dam-danger/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/14/chesapeake-dead-zone-down-dry-weather-credited/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/08/14/chesapeake-dead-zone-down-dry-weather-credited/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:19:40 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=221463 The size of the Chesapeake Bay’s low-oxygen “dead zone” is down and this year’s dry weather is getting the credit. Samples taken last week found 11.8 percent of the bay had oxygen levels in the water too low to support life, nearly half of the long-term average for this time of year. And that’s down [...]

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]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/17/maryland-moment-fish-soon-to-be-out-of-water/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/04/oyster-group-begins-planting-in-chesapeake/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/04/oyster-group-begins-planting-in-chesapeake/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:39:13 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=214759 ANNAPOLIS — The Oyster Recovery Partnership says it has begun its planting season by placing 31 million oysters on nearly 10 acres in Harris Creek. The nonprofit environmental group says small oysters grown at the University of Maryland’s Horn Point Hatchery were planted this week. The partnership says a recent expansion of the hatchery means [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/04/oyster-group-begins-planting-in-chesapeake/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/11/warm-dry-winter-bringing-chesapeake-to-life-early/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/11/warm-dry-winter-bringing-chesapeake-to-life-early/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:37:25 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/11/warm-dry-winter-bringing-chesapeake-to-life-early/ Crabs are crawling early out of the mud in the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, and that’s only the beginning of changes expected from the warm, dry winter in the nation’s largest estuary. “All the animals, whether they be fish or crabs, are going to be doing things a little differently. It’s going to [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/11/warm-dry-winter-bringing-chesapeake-to-life-early/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/03/28/chesapeake-bay-grasses-down-in-2011-rain-heat-blamed/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/03/28/chesapeake-bay-grasses-down-in-2011-rain-heat-blamed/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:15:33 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/03/28/chesapeake-bay-grasses-down-in-2011-rain-heat-blamed/ Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay declined more than 20 percent last year, hurt by summer heat and heavy rains and snow melt that sent tons of mud and debris into the bay, the Chesapeake Bay Program said Wednesday. The losses mean levels of the grasses that provide food and homes for fish, birds and [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/03/28/chesapeake-bay-grasses-down-in-2011-rain-heat-blamed/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/01/princess-anne-students-raise-oysters-at-state-park/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/01/princess-anne-students-raise-oysters-at-state-park/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:51:49 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/01/princess-anne-students-raise-oysters-at-state-park/ CRISFIELD — Six cages full of baby oysters tethered to a dock at Janes Island State Park were pulled to the surface and then inspected by a group of fifth-graders who have been tending to them for the past two months. Living among the shells and oyster spat were grass shrimp, mud crabs, tiny fish [...]

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