The hospitable climate, lush vegetation and natural beauty of the Chesapeake has made it an increasingly popular recreational area. Boating, crabbing, swimming, hunting and camping are major attractions. Both power and sail boating have grown dramatically. In 1993, more than 175,000 pleasure craft were registered.
Sportfishing is another major recreational activity in the Chesapeake. The National Marine Fisheries Service reported that close to 1 million anglers from Maryland and Virginia took almost 600,000 fishing trips in 1991. Recreational fishing in the states of Maryland and Virginia is estimated at more than $1 billion per year.
H. L. Mencken once called the Bay, ".a great outdoor protein factory." A study by the National Marine Fisheries Service ranked the Chesapeake as third in the nation in fishery catch. Only the Atlantic and Pacific oceans exceed the Bay in production. That is an impressive ranking, since the Bay is small compared to these other bodies of water.
The Chesapeake is also a key commercial waterway, with two of the nation's five major North Atlantic ports located here. The Hampton Roads Complex, which includes Portsmouth, Norfolk, Hampton and New- port News, dominates the mouth of the Bay. Hampton Roads ranks third in tonnage of foreign water-borne commerce. At the northern end, the Port of Baltimore is ranked ninth in the nation. Baltimore is the leading exporter of trucks and cars in the nation. More than 90 million tons of cargo were shipped via the Chesapeake during 1992. Both Baltimore and Hampton Roads are near the coal-producing regions of Appalachia, making them essential to exporting U. S. coal abroad. The Hampton Roads Complex already leads the nation in exporting coal and lignite.
Shipbuilding and other related industries also depend on the Bay. Industries and power companies use large volumes of water from the Bay for industrial processes and cooling.
Perhaps the Chesapeake's most valuable function, yet most difficult to put a price tag on, is its role as habitat for living resources.
The Chesapeake Bay is America's largest estuary and one of the world's most productive. ... A total of about 15 million people reside in the Chesapeake Bay water shed. ... The Chesapeake Bay's decline was evident as early as the 1950s. ... But in recent years the Chesapeake Bay has been receiving too much of these nutrients. ... There are three basic ways that pollution gets into the Chesapeake Bay. ...
Development of the Chesapeake Bay and Massachusetts Bay Colonies In the period just before the American War for Independence, the colonies of North America where controlled by the British empire. ... The colonies of the Chesapeake Bay and New England (Massachusetts) Bay where two of the greatest colonies of North America. ... The Chesapeake Bay colony consisted of the future colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. ... Their beliefs where different, the community did most of the work and didn't own slaves like they did in the Chesapeake Bay colony. ... Although t...
Language and Ecology Vol 2: No 3 available www.ecoling.net/journal.html LINGUISTIC EROSION ON THE CHESAPEAKE: INTERGENERATIONAL DIACHRONIC SHIFTS IN LEXICALIZATIONS OF THE BAY Anjali Pandey Abstract This article examines shifting lexicalizations of the Chesapeake Bay in three generations' nomenclature, and points to a significant diachronic shift in environmental labelings currently occurring in an Atlantic seaboard speech community. ... In a formal poll of 72 residents in a rural peninsula community sandwiched between the mighty Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Sea, the research questi...
Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay area, was not interested in long-term colonization in America. ... To cultivate these tobacco crops the Chesapeake Bay colonist utilized slave labor, and the use of indentured servants. ... The differences between the Chesapeake Bay colony and the New England colonies were very obvious. While New England was a royal colony, that put enormous emphasis on the Puritan religion, the Chesapeake Bay colonies were propriety colonies who were Anglican but did not put as much emphasis on their religion. New England wanted to settle in America, while the Bay colonies wer...
Don Nguyen 9-9-03 a2 Chesapeake Bay Colony vs New England Colonies Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by the people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. ... The colonists of New England were religious separatist or puritans while the colonists that went to Chesapeake were mostly young men and women sent to find gold. ... When things went wrong for the Chesapeake settlers they would think more independently and not always listen to authority. ... The main focus of those in the Chesapeake was profit. ... For ...
INTRODUCTION The water of the Chesapeake Bay is the home of one of Maryland's most economically important animals: Callinectes sapidus. ... Early settlers documented the utilization of the blue crab by the native people of the Chesapeake Bay. ... Population decline In recent times the Chesapeake Bay has seen a noticeable decrease in the blue crab population as well as in the yield taken by the watermen (Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee, no date available). Graph 1 shows how the number of young crabs has changed (Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee 2001). ... Sedimen...
Grass beds in the Chesapeake Bay's shallow waters are known as submerged aquatic vegetation or SAV. ... Research is now being completed on the massive decline of SAV in the Chesapeake Bay. ... On April 15th, 2003 the Chesapeake Bay Program approved the new bay grass restoration goal of 185,000 acres. ... These new science-based goals will help Chesapeake Bay partners reduce nutrient and sediment pollution entering the Bay as well as improve the quality of tributaries throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. ... It has been found in the Chesapeake Bay as well as in other bays in North...
Living a Healthy Life in New England The views and living arrangements in the Chesapeake Bay and New England in the 1600s were very different from each other. ... Health conditions overwhelmed the Chesapeake colonies with infections, diseases, and deaths. ... The Chesapeake colonies were not strictly of the Puritan faith. ... In the Chesapeake, families did not typically consist of both parents in a child's teenage years. ... Living environments in New England and the Chesapeake Bay area differed from each other, but settling in New England would be a more stable and positive exper...
Over time, the New England and Chesapeake Bay regions grew to be exceptionally different. ... In the Chesapeake Bay region, there was turmoil and civil warfare. ... Life in the Chesapeake Bay area was extremely different from that of New England. ... Blacks living in the Chesapeake Bay region could not own property, and would never have a trial by jury. ... Politically, the New England colonies were more peaceful, while the southern Chesapeake Bay colonies were rebellious. ...
