This blocks the sunlight from getting to the bottom, so the grasses that the baby crabs need for food die. Since they don't have enough food, the baby crabs die, too. 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.