Delaware Bay

With large tides and tidal marsh, Delaware Bay should be producing abundant fish. Serial overfishing, marsh destruction, and careless management ruined the fishery and the productive base on which it relied.

The beaches, marsh and the tide make Delaware Bay productive yet most of its resources are depleted or recoverying. Why? How can we do more?

Our changing climate worries most people especially the young but what can we do? Restoring habitat for wildlife while creating a more resilient shorelines.

The plunder of Delaware Bay horseshoe crabs makes little sense. Numbers would grow if it ended allowing more for everyone.. So why not stop the killing?

The largest population of horseshoe crabs in the world spawn in Delaware Bay. They provide food for birds and fish. Five blogs describe new ways to help restore them to original numbers.

Only 14 miles separates the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, yet we saw two very different ecological and economic worlds as we sailed from one to the other.