Watermen motor to their crab traps on July 21, 2023, on the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, near Crosby, Maryland. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) released its 2022 State of the Bay report in January 2023, a biennial evaluation grading the Bay and its watershed, reporting the Bay as a D , unchanged from the 2020 score. Efforts to restore the Bay are struggling to reduce agricultural pollution. Urban and suburban polluted runoff is increasing amid inconsistent enforcement by government agencies, new development, and climate change. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
