Cites and industries in the state need to get rid of the waste that people make. They dump bad stuff like oil, sewage, and other pollutants into rivers that lead into the Bay. These pollutants kill the fish. Rain washes the plastic bags into storm drains. The storm drains empty into streams that empty into rivers that empty into Chesapeake Bay.
Ducks eat the plastic bags, get sick, and die.
Students will investigate these and other indicators of the heath of Chesapeake Bay as they work through these Maryland Explorations , especially the unit on environmental concerns. Despite these limitations, some watermen continue to struggle to maintain their quintessentially Maryland was of life. Many of those still struggling are black. When people think of Maryland watermen, they rarely think of blacks-and yet African Americans have been harvesting and sailing the Bay since first coming to these shores. Though long and rich, this tradition has until recently remained largely undocumented.