by: Jane Black, photography by: Molly McDonald Peterson AT LAST, SOME GOOD NEWS for Chesapeake Bay fish lovers. Three years after policymakers drastically restricted the blue crab catch, the number of our beloved blues reached 461 million, its second-highest level in more than a decade. But with the good comes the bad. While blue crabs [...]
The more oysters we eat, the better chance they’ll thrive in the bay. By Walter Nicholls • Photographs by Molly McDonald Peterson It’s time to raise a farmed oyster half shell for a slurping salute. The number of oyster aquaculture farms in Virginia is growing with harvests year-round; and to the north, Maryland is [...]
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