Editing Chesapeake Bay (section)

===Fishing industry===
[[File:Skipjack EPA.PNG|thumb|A [[Skipjack (boat)|skipjack]], part of the [[oyster#Fishing from the wild|oystering]] fleet in Maryland]]
The bay is well known for its seafood, especially [[Callinectes sapidus|blue crabs]],<ref name=twsT19>{{cite news |first=William |last=Grimes |title=William W. Warner, Chesapeake Bay Author, Dies at 88 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 30, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/books/30warner.html |access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref> [[clam]]s, and [[Eastern oyster|oysters]]. In the middle of the 20th century, the bay supported 9,000 full-time watermen, according to one account.<ref name=twsT19/> Today, the body of water is less productive than it used to be because of [[surface runoff|runoff]] from urban areas (mostly on the Western Shore) and farms (especially on the [[Maryland Eastern Shore|Eastern Shore]] and in the Susquehanna River watershed), over-harvesting, and [[invasive species|invasion of foreign species]].

The plentiful oyster harvests led to the development of the [[Skipjack (boat)|skipjack]] (such as the [[Helen Virginia (Skipjack boat)|''Helen Virginia'']]), the state boat of Maryland, which is the only remaining working boat type in the United States still under sail power. Other characteristic bay-area workboats include sail-powered boats such as the [[log canoe]], the [[pungy]], the [[Bugeye (boat)|bugeye]], and the motorized [[Chesapeake Bay deadrise]], the state boat of Virginia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chesapeake Bay Workboats|url=http://www.baygateways.net/workboats.cfm|publisher=Chesapeake Bay Gateway Network|access-date=2007-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407172549/http://baygateways.net/workboats.cfm|archive-date=2007-04-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In addition to harvesting wild oysters, [[oyster farming]] is a growing industry in the bay. Oyster aquaculture is passive in that the bay provides all the natural oyster food needed, making it an environmentally friendly practice in contrast to other kinds of fish farming.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=S. J. |last2=Delaporte |first2=A. |last3=Phillips |first3=M. J. |last4=Beveridge |first4=M. |last5=O'Keefe |first5=M. |title=Blue Frontiers: Managing the Environmental Costs of Aquaculture |date=2011 |publisher=The WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia |url=https://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de/epub/volltexte/2013/17704/pdf/WF_2818.pdf}}</ref> Oyster farms provide jobs as well as a natural effort for filtering [[nutrient pollution|excess nutrients]] from the water in an effort to reduce the effects of [[eutrophication]] [[water pollution|pollution]] (too much algae). The [[Chesapeake Bay Program]] promotes oyster restoration projects to reduce the amount of nitrogen compounds entering the bay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oyster Restoration Projected to Provide Significant Boost to Bay Grasses While Removing Nitrogen Pollution from the Bay |url=http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2005/081505.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903090534/http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2005/081505.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-09-03 |publisher=Maryland Department of Natural Resources}}</ref>

The bay is famous for its rockfish, a regional name for [[striped bass]]. Once on the verge of extinction, rockfish have made a significant comeback because of legislative action that put a moratorium on rockfishing, which allowed the species to re-populate. Rockfish can now be fished in strictly controlled and limited quantities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Striped Bass Regulations for 2022 |url=https://dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/documents/StripedBass_regulations2022.pdf |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Maryland Department of Natural Resources}}</ref>

Other popular recreational fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay include [[Shad fishing|shad]],<ref name="Chesapeake Bay Magazine 2018">{{cite web | title=Shad | website=Chesapeake Bay Magazine | date=5 April 2018 | url=https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/shad/ | access-date=21 October 2021}}</ref> [[cobia]], [[Croaker fish|croaker]], and [[red drum|redfish]], [[winter flounder]], and [[summer flounder]]. Recently, non-native [[blue catfish]] have proliferated in tributaries like the [[James River]] and may be moving to other areas of the bay.<ref name="Nepal Fabrizio p=e0224770">{{cite journal |last1=Nepal |first1=Vaskar |last2=Fabrizio |first2=Mary C. |editor-last=Patterson | editor-first=Heather M. | title=High salinity tolerance of invasive blue catfish suggests potential for further range expansion in the Chesapeake Bay region | journal=PLOS ONE |publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) |volume=14 |issue=11 |date=5 November 2019 |issn=1932-6203 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0224770 |page=e0224770 |pmid=31689331 |pmc=6830772 |bibcode=2019PLoSO..1424770N | doi-access=free }}</ref> A commercial fishery exists for [[Atlantic menhaden|menhaden]], too oily for human consumption but instead used for bait, fish oil, and livestock feed.<ref name="menhaden">{{cite web |title=Atlantic Menhaden |publisher=Chesapeake Bay Program | url=https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/atlantic_menhaden |access-date=21 October 2021}}</ref>