STORMWATER RUNOFF

• Any precipitation in an urban or suburban area that does not evaporate or soak
• into the ground, but instead pools and travels downhill
• Stormwater picks up nutrients, sediment and chemical contaminants
• as it flows across roads, yards, farms, golf courses, parking lots and
• construction sites.

STORM WATER RUNOFF

• Sources of pollution from urban and suburban runoff include:
• Lawn and garden fertilizers
• Pet waste
• Septic tanks
• wastewater treatment facilities

AIR POLLUTION

• Air pollution doesn’t just cloud the air we breathe.
• It also harm our land and water.
• What goes up must come down, and pollution that is in the air
• Comes back down and winds up in our water way.

AIR POULLTION

• Atmospheric deposition occurs in several stages.
• First, pollution is emitted into the air, where wind and weather can carry
• carry it over long distances.
• Eventually, airborne pollution particles fall onto the land or into the
• the water, sometimes in the form of dry particles

STRIPED BASS

• Striped bass are a key predator in the Chesapeake Bay food web
• They also support one of the Bay's most popular commercial and
• recreational fisheries.
• they must have enough prey primarily menhaden and bay anchovies
• available to them to keep their population healthy

STRIPED BASS

• Strong fluctuations in the number of striped bass
• In the bay could cause cascading changes throughout the rest of the
• the food web.

BLUE CRABS

• As both predator and prey, blue crabs are a keystone species
• in the Chesapeake Bay food web.
• Blue crabs also make up the most productive commercial
• and recreational fisheries in the Bay.

BLUE CRABS

• Blue crabs are prey for fish, birds even other blue crabs!
• During the past 60 years, blue crabs along with Atlantic menhaden
• Blue crabs enhance salt marsh communities by feeding on
• on marsh periwinkles.

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