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Dec. 2003 · Volume 2 Number 4

Volume 2 Number 4

Marine Protected Areas

Merrill Leffler and Jack Greer

Intense debate has circled the creation of this protected zone for crabs, which includes a sanctuary near the Bay's mouth and a mid-Bay corridor (in waters generally 35 feet deep or more) that reaches to the Maryland-Virginia line. Crabbers, cut off from fishing grounds, complain about its length and breadth. Some - especially in Maryland - complain that the sanctuary does no good, since crabs and crabbers don't use these deeper waters in summer anyway. Welcome to the world of marine protected areas, zones designed to preserve specific habitats and marine populations, and guaranteed to stir local controversy. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

A Fisheries Ecosystem Plan for the Bay

Merrill Leffler

The soon-to-be released Fisheries Ecosystem Plan (FEP) for the Chesapeake Bay sets out a comprehensive strategy for new approaches to managing fisheries in the Chesapeake - approaches, McBride believes, that could help prevent the kinds of devastating losses that have occurred in the Bay's oyster, sturgeon and shad fisheries. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

The Need for Monitoring

With multispecies management in the Chesapeake scheduled to get underway in 2007, state management agencies will be looking for help from fisheries scientists - and models such as Ecosim-Ecospace-Ecopath - to help assess the implications of alternative policies. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

Remembrance of Things Past

Michael W. Fincham

He left the water for county politics and business, but George O'Donnell kept his love for the history and culture of commercial fishing along Kent Narrows. After seven years of work, he finally raised enough money to commission the Maryland Waterman's Monument, a bronze memorial to a way of life that may be passing. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

Knauss Marine Policy Fellows for 2004

Three University of Maryland graduate students - one in the Conservation Biology program and two in the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science (MEES) Program - and one student from Georgetown University Law School are recipients of four Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships for 2004. The fellowship program, begun in 1979 and coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant Office, provides graduate students across the country with an opportunity to spend a year working with policy and science experts in Washington, D.C. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

Et Cetera

Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receive support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .

Managing the Bay's Fisheries (Part 1)

Managing Fisheries for the Future

Merrill Leffler

How do our fishing practices affect the food web that supports all life in the Bay, from forage fish to top predators? Scientists are seeking to better understand these interrelationships and develop more holistic methods of managing sustainable fisheries in the Chesapeake. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . .