Fresh Water Impact Concern Chesapeake Bay Watermen

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s a die-off invisible to most people, but not watermen. The huge amount of fresh water pouring into the bay from heavy rains is wiping out clams. What’s coming up now is mostly empty shells and dead, decaying white clams.
“This is a manmade disaster,” waterman Michael Eber said. “This ain’t Mother Nature,”
Watermen blame the Conowingo Dam. With recent record rains come supercharged releases of fresh water, when a gradual releas