Chesapeake Bay

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• The chesapeake bay used to have lots of shellfish, but now there isn’t much except in farmed beds owned by specific corporations and even those have trouble with imported predators. Matthew Yglesias » Carping
• It covered the Hampton Roads region, which is thick with inlets and rivers and floods easily, and chugged north toward Chesapeake Bay. Hurricane Irene Picks Up Speed As It Re-Emerges Over Atlantic (LIVE UPDATES)
• Ranging freely across the "greater Caribbean"—the region between the Chesapeake Bay and the Guyanas—McNeill makes a riveting case that the primary driver in the colonial conflicts there was not political or economic but microbiological. A New Approach to American History Histories of america before the Revolution
• In this case, it would have been helpful to include material on Chesapeake Bay clamming and more material on the very active contemporary movement to ‘Save the Bay.’
• Mute swans are responsible for driving the last remaining colony of black skimmers from Chesapeake Bay.
• From Baltimore down either side of Chesapeake Bay southern Maryland and the Delmarva Peninsula, there was a lot of Confederate sympathy, and at least that part might have seceeded but for Union occupation and the suspension of habeas corpus. The Volokh Conspiracy » Which State Song, Written in 1861, Speaks of the State’s “Spurn[ing] the Northern Scum”?
• But the paddle alone is worth it: The islands in this part of Chesapeake Bay sit two or three miles apart, most of them just long, narrow strips of cordgrass and sand so small that they aren't mapped.
• THE STUBBY-MASTED SAILBOAT WITH THE SINGLE OVERSIZED gaff-rigged sail cruised over the deep blue waters of Chesapeake Bay, pushed along from directly behind by a steady fifteen-knot breeze from the southwest. SERPENT
• Fronting the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, the county is a center of boating and water sports, including fishing, crabbing, sailing, and swimming.
• The coastal waters of Virginia Beach and the lower Chesapeake Bay are within the northern range of many south-Atlantic species-including spotted seatrout, red drum, black drum, spadefish, cobia, Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, amberjack, jack crevalle, and even tarpon. VIRGINIA BEACH: North Meets South