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Chesapeake Bay Action Plan

After decades of effort, the voluntary, collaborative approach to restoring the health and vitality of the Chesapeake Bay— the largest estuary in the United States—has not worked and, in fact, is failing.

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Agriculture & the Decline of Smallmouth Bass

By Robert A. Bachman | March 7, 2011

(Posted by Robert A. Bachman.)

In a resolution passed unanimously at its winter quarterly meeting on January 10, 2010, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission made the following declaration:

…The Board of Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission hereby expresses deep concern for the health of the Susquehanna River’s smallmouth bass fishery and asserts there is evidence showing that the water quality of the Susquehanna River has become increasingly impaired to the level that it is seriously impacting important elements of the Susquehanna River fishery, especially its nationally-reputed smallmouth bass fishery.”