Aileen Devlin
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Virginia Sea Grant
Nonprofits across the Bay watershed said they’re seeing money dry up for farmers, local governments and community groups.
Shaban Athuman
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VPM News
Shaban Athuman
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VPM News
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsVirginia and its Chesapeake Bay Watershed neighbors to revisit cleanup goals. -
Mark Wilson/Getty Images/Getty Images North AmericaAfter a 16-year prohibition, a group of Virginia watermen voted to reinstate winter crab dredging. Many argue the decision puts the blue crab’s fragile population in jeopardy.
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Courtesy of Kenny Fletcher/Chesapeake Bay FoundationDecades of overharvesting, disease and habitat destruction have decimated the river’s oyster population.
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Credit: Brooke McDonough/Virginia Working LandscapesThe grants will support programs from Rockbridge County to Newport News.
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Underwater grasses called ‘canary in the coalmine’ for Bay ecosystem.
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Some invertebrate species struggled, and the water's a little cloudier this year.
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L. Kellogg/Virginia Institute of Marine ScienceThe warm stretches are natural occurrences, but are becoming hotter and more frequent due to climate change, one researcher said.
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Menhaden have been valuable to a commercial fishery dating back more than a century.
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Keyris Manzanares/VPM News Focal PointWhile the season was extended last year, a specialist says that won’t be the norm.
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Low rainfall contributed to the change.
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Even with an increase over last year, numbers don't approach a 1993 peak.
