When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets ...

“Well, the boat is 31 years old; this is the original mast,” said Robert Neumer, the maintenance supervisor for the Nathan of Dorchester.

DEAL ISLAND, MD - History repeated itself today on Deal Island as crowds gathered to watch the 65th annual Skipjack Races. These historic vessels, once the backbone of the Chesapeake Bay's oyster ...

He worked his way up to become the captain of a skipjack boat, leading a crew that dredged oysters from Chesapeake Bay. By the 1980s, Travers was among only a handful who could be counted as a Black ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s “State of the Bay” report card released in January 2023 gave the bay an overall grade of “D+,” unchanged from 2020. Of the 13 indicators assessed, only ...

A typical skipjack carries a crew of five and can legally harvest 100 bushels of oysters a day. Lately, “boats are catching their limit by 10:00, 10:30 in the morning,” Ridgley said.

The commercial sail powered boat population on the Chesapeake Bay dropped from about 2,000 craft of all sizes in 1910 to about 700 sail-powered boats by the mid 1920s.

This was supposed to be a triumphant summer for the Wilma Lee, bought by the Annapolis Maritime Museum four years ago. It is the only vessel of its kind in Maryland’s state capital since the ...

What we know about the incident The single vehicle accident occurred Thursday at about 1:50 p.m. on a northbound lane on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, resulting in the truck going overboard.

Maryland’s oyster dredge skipjack fleet is the last commercial sailing fleet in North America and the Rebecca T. Ruark is the oldest surviving vessel in the fleet. A 170-ton crane hauled the Rebecca T ...

A small boat travels along the Honga River near the Chesapeake Bay, as the sky lights up at sunrise in Fishing Creek, Md., May 14, 2020. A proposed settlement agreement announced Thursday, April 20, ...