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Maryland's Chesapeake Bay spring striped bass season opens on Saturday, April 19, with a one fish per person per day limit and a minimum size of 28 inches through May 15

In addition to providing real-time data on current conditions out on the Chesapeake, through this website, you can also make graphs to help you track trends in any of the parameters observed by CBIBS buoys.

The Susquehanna, Upper Potomac, and Patapsco buoys--which had been pulled from the water in early winter--were all redeployed the week of March 17.

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A frigid Arctic air mass has brought dangerous, and in some cases life-threatening, low temperatures and wind chills to much of the central and eastern United States.

The CBIBS Upper Potomac and Susquehanna buoys have been pulled for the winter. This is done each each in preparation for winter, as ice can damage the buoys' in-water sensors, and large ice floes can move buoys and their moorings.

Every year in the late fall, migratory striped bass (Morone saxatilis)—rockfish—make a trip into the Chesapeake Bay on the way from their summer home off New England to their winter grounds off the capes of Virginia and North Carolina.

Through a unique partnership with the Virginia Commonwealth University, real-time data from a new buoy in the James River is now available via the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System.

In partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office’s CBIBS team today completed a full-buoy replacement of the CBIBS First Landing buoy.

Ten years have passed since Hurricane Isabel tracked through the Chesapeake region with high winds and high water levels. Isabel made landfall near Drum Inlet, North Carolina, around 1 p.m. Thursday, September 18, as a category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds.