The Accomack County Board of Supervisors learned Wednesday that the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has approved $5 million in funding for the proposed Cedar Island Resilience Project.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone Report Card shows the Chesapeake Bay's "dead zone" stayed at average levels in 2025. 

The Maryland Coastal Bays Program has released the 2024 Coastal Bays Report Card rating the overall health of the bays at a B, the highest score the bays have achieved so far. 

For the first time on record, scientists have documented the presence of stone crabs in Chesapeake Bay waters off of Virginia.

For another consecutive year, striped bass, or rockfish, in the Chesapeake Bay are showing poor reproduction rates according to studies in Maryland and Virginia.

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. -- The erosion of Cedar Island has caught the attention of marine scientists. So much so, there are now plans in the works to restore the marshlands surrounding the island. 

The Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey, a cooperative effort between the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia …