In the Chesapeake Bay, White perch commonly prey upon grass shrimp, razor clams and bloodworms which are all common to the region.

During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted three-quarters of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake region.

The Chesapeake Bay and Maryland region has generally been associated more with crabs, but in recent years the area has been trying to reduce its catch of blue crabs, as wild populations have been depleted.

There was a mass migration of southern English Cavaliers and their servants to the Chesapeake Bay region between 1640 and 1675.

Located in the Middle Peninsula region, it borders the York River and the lower Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake region has roots extending back to Virginia's colonial past.

In the Chesapeake Bay region, blue crab is often eaten with Old Bay Seasoning.

As the English increasingly used tobacco products, tobacco in the American colonies became significant economic force, especially in the tidewater region surrounding the Chesapeake Bay.

The origin of the mixed-race families later to be called " Melungeons " was mostly the unions among the working classes in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The American eel is found along the Atlantic coast including Chesapeake Bay and the Hudson River and as far north as the St. Lawrence River region.

The Bayhawks also announced that the team name would be changed to the Chesapeake Bayhawks to include all areas of the region from Northern Maryland to Virginia and Washington, DC to the Eastern Shore.

Lee lived his entire life in the region of Virginia between the Rappahannock River and the Chesapeake Bay ( known as the Northern Neck ).

* Chesapeake Bay Magazine, a monthly publication focusing on boating, leisure, and lifestyle in the mid-Atlantic region

Five cities in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia were formed by the consolidation of a city with a county: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach ( from Norfolk, Elizabeth City, Warwick, Nansemond, and Princess Anne counties, respectively ).

As the region and Virginia rebuilt during Reconstruction, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ) under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington was completed from Richmond to the Ohio River by 1871.

Before the era of modern highways, many passenger and freight steamer routes linked the entire Chesapeake Bay region and connected with the railroads developed after 1830.

Nine wineries are in the region and may be found on the Chesapeake Bay Wine Trail.

Before modern highways existed, passenger ferries and steam freighters linked the entire Chesapeake Bay region.

:# Credited to Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano, who first named a region around Chesapeake Bay Archadia ( Arcadia ) in 1524 because of " the beauty of its trees ", according to his diary.

In the Chesapeake Bay region in Maryland, where they were introduced in the 1940s, coypu are believed to have destroyed of marshland in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.

This turn of events was unfortunate for Claiborne, since the Maryland charter included all lands on either side of the Chesapeake Bay north of the mouth of the Potomac River, a region which included Claiborne's proposed trading post on Kent Island.

MWCOG provides water quality planning and coordination on a variety of water quality issues in the Washington region, including restoration of the Anacostia River, water supply coordination and support for the Chesapeake Bay Program.

* Middle Atlantic Bight or Mid-Atlantic Bight, an unofficial term used by oceanographers for the continental shelf region off the U. S. east coast, from Cape Hatteras, NC, to Cape Cod, MA, including Chesapeake Bay and the New York Bight

From Richmond, " Route 33 " continues east as Virginia State Route 33 across the Atlantic coastal plain through the Tidewater region of the Middle Peninsula to reach the Chesapeake Bay at Stingray Point just east of Deltaville.

The 70-mile long region is part of the Delmarva Peninsula and is separated from the rest of Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay.

Chesapeake, meanwhile, was almost the last to break and wasn't doing much at the back of the pack.

As the Upper South of the Chesapeake Bay Colony developed first, historians of the antebellum South defined planters as those who held 20 or more slaves.

Notable places of interest in the St. Leonard area include Flag Ponds Nature Park, a nature preserve along the Chesapeake Bay, and Jefferson Patterson State Park, home to an annual Celtic festival, the State's archaeological facility, and site of several key naval battles fought in the Patuxent River during the War of 1812.

In 1942, in alliance with Allan P. Kirby, a retail merchant, Young owned a controlling interest in the Alleghany Corporation, a railroad holding company previously owned by the Cleveland-based Van Sweringen family, which controlled the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( C & O ), Pere Marquette Railroad ( PM ), and other railroad properties.

Other folkloric creatures include the Nain Rouge of Detroit, Michigan and Chessie, a legendary sea monster said to live in Chesapeake Bay.

Examples include the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Canal latéral à la Loire, Garonne Lateral Canal, and Canal latéral à l ' Aisne.

Other characteristic bay-area workboats include sail-powered boats such as the log canoe, the pungy, the bugeye, and the motorized Chesapeake Bay deadrise, the state boat of Virginia.

After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.

Examples of this type of estuary include the Hudson River, Chesapeake Bay, and Delaware Bay along the U. S. Mid-Atlantic coast ; and along the U. S. Gulf coast, Galveston Bay and Tampa Bay.

Examples include the Chesapeake Bay and Narragansett Bay.

Species include the Javanese cownose ray, Rhinoptera javanica, in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, the Australian cownose ray, Rhinoptera neglecta, around the Australian coasts and a species which inhabits the Chesapeake Bay, Rhinoptera bonasus.

Its major attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park.

Places of note in the Lusby area include the Cove Point Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay and Calvert Cliffs State Park.

Notable buildings within the district include the hotels and boarding homes which catered to the steamboat passengers, several churches, and summer cottages, dating from the golden age of the passenger steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay.

The oystermen and others who work on the Chesapeake Bay have their own distinct folk song styles which include hymns and work songs.

Some of the Center's projects include " The Chesapeake Bay Initiative ," tracking mercury levels through the food chain in wild and captive bottlenose dolphins, and assessing chronic natural resource damages from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

As population growth overtook the operation, it eventually expanded to include a second farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland, United States.

Public facilities in Chaddesden include a public library, Chaddesden Park primary school, the Chesapeake youth centre, and the North Chaddesden Children's Centre.

Other tourist destinations include the town of St. Michaels on a neck surrounded by water ; the colonial former port of Oxford ; Chestertown ; and isolated Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay.

For example, in the U. S. state of Virginia, such crossings include the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, both of which cross the harbor at Hampton Roads, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, a long structure ( including approach highways ) that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay with a combination of bridges and tunnels across two widely separated shipping channels, using four artificial islands built in the bay as portals.

Other Camp Quest affiliates in North America, and dates of their inaugural camp sessions, include: Camp Quest of Michigan in 2003, Camp Quest Minnesota in 2004, Camp Quest Ontario in 2005, Camp Quest West ( located in California ) in 2006, Camp Quest Texas in 2010, and Camp Quest Chesapeake ( located in Virginia ), Camp Quest Montana, and Camp Quest South Carolina in 2011, and Camp Quest NorthWest ( in Washington State ) in 2012.

Other Botsford compositions include " Grizzly Bear Rag ," " Chatterbox Rag ," " Pianophiends Rag ," " Texas Steer ," " Boomerang Rag ," and " Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay.

* City of South Norfolk ( 1919 – 1963 ) boundaries extended to include Norfolk County and name changed to independent City of Chesapeake

Geographical focus of Oceans programs include Belize, Cuba, the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California, and the South Atlantic.

Some of the planned upgrades to the Chesapeake Energy Arena include upscale restaurants, clubs, additional suites ( including so-called ' bunker suites '), office space, Kid's Zone, additional concessions, flooring upgrades, an integrated video and scoring system from Daktronics, view lounges and upgraded ' general use ' locker rooms.