A Chesapeake Bay scientist said Tuesday that the climate is now changing so fast, that restoring the Chesapeake to what it used to be is not a realistic possibility.
Instead, Dr. Bill Dennison, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences said the bay will “absolutely not” be the same in the future.
“Our challenge is we have to reimagine the bay,” Dennison said. “We’re not trying to restore the bay to 1950 or to when John Smith explored here in the 1600s. We’re talking about a future bay that is very different from the bay that we’ve had or the bay that we have today.”
Most recently, he reports two years of hot spells have killed off underwater eel grasses in the lower Chesapeake, seriously damaging the nursery ground for baby crabs and putting a path to total recovery of the lower bay grass in question.
Underwater grasses scored only 33% on the UMCES scale of bay health, compared to 35% in the most recent previous report.
The poor showing for bay grasses comes as Maryland’s Department of Natural resources is reporting the worst year for juvenile crab populations in the history of modern surveys.
Scientists never lie for money… we probably should just keep flying in crabs from China. We purchased 14 million barrels of oil from Russia in may and June. Under Trump we purchased ZERO. This is after Russia hacked our infrastructure. Climate crisis demands we close down our pipe line and open up Russia’s. It’s science folks.
Thought with lasts years one off (minimal waterman working the bay) things would be a bit more happy speak with bay talk.
Guess not. Lack of males to start the season. However another Bay speaker said the Bay received fair rating compared to poor a couple years ago. Now reality talk about the Bay can never be like it used to be.
Things will never ever be like they were. John Smith 1600’s? HAHAHAHAHA
How about a world reimagined without Leftists? Sounds better to me.
Truer words have never been written.
we already have the flush tax which they get!
I trust these government “scientists” like I trust Faucci
If there’s no crabs to pick, cut the number of visa workers available to the picking houses.
Why spend and collect tax dollars to restore the BAY when they are saying they cannot eve restore the BAY?
Buy blue crabs from Louisiana or Japan? Both areas have blue crabs like the Bay does. Been buying Louisiana blue crabs for years shipping in here and claiming to be Chesapeake blue crabs
Climate change is a much of crap.
The bay has never been “the same” since before the Industrial Revolution.
how about making pensylvania DC Baltimore Annapolis Norfolk all stop pumping their shit into the bay? maybe just maybe it might have a chance to clean itself.
Future of Democrat Party should be Re-imagined !!!!