Volume 2 Number 1

Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receive support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about Video Spotlights

Rooted in Maryland's rich maritime tradition, the 19th century working sailboats we now call skipjacks may face extinction in the 21st century. Can we restore the great oyster reefs of the Chesapeake as well as the historic fishing boats that helped tear them down? Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about Saving Oysters . . . And Oystermen (Part 3)

Skipjacks were born in the 1890s during the first great slump in the oyster stocks of Chesapeake Bay. They were single-masted sailing craft, so cheap to build that they soon outnumbered two-masted schooners, bugeyes and pungys, the large boats that first dredged out many of the Bay's huge oyster bars during the decades following the Civil War. Fewer oysters led to smaller boats. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about The Rise and Fall of the Two-Sail Bateau

With the winter dredge season now done, some skipjacks are ready to raise sails again - not for catching oysters but for carrying people of all ages out on the Bay. This second season, the teaching season, runs from April into November. This year at least nine skipjacks will be carrying educational and recreational and sightseeing tours. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about A Second Season for Skipjacks

In the early 1980s, Vlahovich read James Michener's best-selling novel and started looking for a job in a tidewater boatyard. As a west coast salmon-fisherman-turned-boat carpenter, Vlahovich had already seen one historic fishery sink, taking with it a lot of boats and captains and working waterfront. He soon found work as a carpenter foreman in a boatyard near Reedville, Virginia, beginning a back-and-forth-again career working with the boats and yards and people in the Bay's historic fisheries for blue crabs and oysters. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about Saving (Working) Skipjacks

Two University of Maryland graduate students, both in the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science (MEES) program, are recipients of Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships for 2003. The fellowship program, begun in 1979 and coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Sea Grant Office, provides graduate students across the country with an opportunity to spend a year working with policy and science experts in Washington, D.C. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about Knauss Fellows for 2003

Eileen Setzler-Hamilton, who distinguished herself for nearly 30 years as a researcher, educator, mentor and scientific liaison to numerous Chesapeake Bay commissions and task forces, died of cancer on March 12, 2003, at Solomons, Maryland. A scientist at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), she was passionately devoted to science - her special interests were fish ecology, estuarine ecology and management of Chesapeake Bay living resources. From 1987-1990, she also served as the Environmental Analyst for the Environmental Matters Committee of the state of Maryland House of Delegates. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about In Memoriam

Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receive support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Managing Editor, Sandy Rodgers; Contributing Editors, Jack Greer and Merrill Leffler. more . . . about Et Cetera