There was little progress in the quality of the bays that run from the Maryland-Delaware state line down into Virginia.
That’s according to the report card put out by the Maryland Coastal Bays Program, the Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Essentially the region was given a C-plus in the report for 2014.
The report found that improvements in Newport and Sinepuxent Bays were offset by declines in the Assawoman Bay.
Phosphorus levels also continued to rise despite reductions from agricultural and urban areas.
The survey did find that the Chincoteague Bay underwater grasses that spread out across 3-thousand acres made up 42 percent of the program’s goal.
But there were declines in seagrass for Assawoman Bay and the Isle of Wight.
