A spokesman for a Virginia menhaden fishery pushes back on a Sun editorial that called for a moratorium on menhaden fishing.

Editorial: Falling stocks of menhaden are having a big impact on vital Chesapeake Bay species. It’s time for Virginia to do something about it.

A new Maryland Department of Natural Resources study says bowfishing and gigging have become the most common ways anglers are ...

A menhaden pulled from the Chesapeake Bay in the area of Jordan Point Marina. (Photo by Charlie Paullin/Virginia Mercury) A board that oversees the management of critical forage fish menhaden along ...

The Chesapeake Channa, known widely as the snakehead, has carved out a unique place in Maryland’s sportfishing scene despite its status as an invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay’s tributaries.

ANNAPOLIS, MD - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has thrown his support behind new legislation aimed at improving the Chesapeake Bay while bolstering the industries that rely on its waters. The proposed ...

Chesapeake Channa adults were first documented in Maryland, thousands of miles from their native habitat in East Asia in 2002. Subsequent illegal introductions and natural dispersal in the decades ...

A newly released study from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources confirms that the invasive fish species Chesapeake Channa, also known as the northern snakehead, is significantly altering ...

When Capt. Tom Weaver took his clients out on Chesapeake Bay on Aug. 1, it was a slick-calm day. They were about 65 miles from the ocean near Hooper Island Lighthouse in Maryland. That’s when he saw ...

Rick Bowers of Silver Spring says the idea to write a song about fish originally came to him when he was out with friends fishing off a bridge at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester, ...