<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Chesapeake Bay</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/specials/chesapeake?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><description>Chesapeake Bay</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Chesapeake's Lessons Flow Both Ways]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42507-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42507-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A friendly exchange slowly is replacing the tension that existed a decade ago between farmers and bay people in the Chesapeake.]]></description><author> Mary Otto</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Crab Industry Angles for Workers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58403-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58403-2005Feb27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay seafood industry is trying to find an entirely new workforce before crab season begins in April.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bay's Dialects Slowly Dying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36333-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36333-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Years ago, before the watermen had to become bus drivers and the crab shanties were replaced by new red-brick houses, everybody on St. George Island knew about the arster, the kitchen and the sun dog.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rescue Effort Sinking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31198-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31198-2005Jan23.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Halfway through a 10-year program to save the Chesapeake Bay, political leaders are acknowledging that cleanup is faltering and are calling for major changes.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planning For Run Thrown Off Stride]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29478-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29478-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maryland transportation officials have told organizers of the annual Bay Bridge Walk and Governor's Bay Bridge Run that the events will probably be canceled this year because of construction.]]></description><author> Amit R. Paley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Seek U.S. Funds For Bay Cleanup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64087-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64087-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The idea is to jump-start the massive cleanup effort, which critics say has been bogged down because of excessive bureaucracy and insufficient funding.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plan for Asian Oysters Worries Del. and N.J.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35679-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35679-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pristine Land Has Stafford Mulling Cost, Priorities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30403-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30403-2004Dec27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Virginia's announcement last month that it would lend Stafford County $30 million toward the purchase and protection of Crow's Nest, a vast forested peninsula that is one of the last individually owned tracts of undeveloped land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, has failed to settle its future.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bay Bridge Flawed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19809-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19809-2004Dec22.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The deck on a sizable portion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge may have to be replaced, including parts of a lane repaved this fall, because the underside of the deck is crumbling.]]></description><author> Steven Ginsberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawsuit Pushes Md. on Pollution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53410-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53410-2004Dec9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maryland is so far behind on setting pollution limits for its streams and lakes that it will not finish the job until 2037 -- 58 years after the original deadline -- according to a lawsuit to be filed by several environmental groups.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation Hits Bumpy Waters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33743-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33743-2004Dec3.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PATUXENT RIVER, Md.<br>The sun had just risen over the Patuxent River when the crew of the Aquarius launched its routine: casting a 30-foot net off the trawler's bow, hauling it in and flinging its contents of writhing fish and crabs onto a wooden slab. Members measured each creature and...]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bay Report Issues Dismal Bill of Health]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20000-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20000-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Key indicators like dissolved oxygen, water clarity and oyster populations in the Chesapeake are still far below acceptable levels, according to a new report.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates For Bay To Sue The EPA]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37984-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37984-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will file the lawsuit Wednesday, signaling a more aggressive strategy for an environmental group that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tapping a Reserve]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12376-2004Oct30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12376-2004Oct30.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nearly 4,000 bushels of disease-free oysters were available for harvesting for the first time Saturday in the depleted Chesapeake Bay.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panel Brings Bay Cleanup Cost Into Focus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3676-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3676-2004Oct27.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Current plans to clean up the Chesapeake Bay could carry a price tag greater than $28 billion, and most of that funding still remains to be found, according to a panel studying the bay's financial support.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates For Bay Churn Waters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62414-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62414-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Advocates for cleaning  the Chesapeake Bay are growing increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of progress.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oyster  Revival  In Bay Set Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29969-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29969-2004Aug24.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal experiment in restoring oysters to the Chesapeake Bay this summer unexpectedly turned into an underwater buffet for shellfish-loving predators, with about $45,000 worth of oysters quickly eaten.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress Minimal on Bay Pollution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19946-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19946-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Scientists and the government officials directing the Chesapeake Bay cleanup offered varying assessments Friday of  the progress in controlling pollution in the estuary during a congressional committee hearing, but they agreed that by anyone's measure, much more needs to be done.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Along Bay, Gasps of Frustration]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3624-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3624-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A tour of the bay and its tributaries revealed a tide of frustration.]]></description><author> David A. Fahrenthold</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 Senators Seek GAO Review of Bay Cleanup]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58150-2004Aug11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58150-2004Aug11.html?nav=rss_metro/specials/chesapeake</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:45:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Senators are calling for a review of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort following reports that the lead agency overstated its progress.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item></channel></rss>