Your name. In annapolis its a big deal. People talk about it all the time. A lot of concern from Business Owners and what are we doing to address it. But we have a plan in place. We just need the funding to implement it going forward. Okay. Im going to skip mr. Baker because my questions were about rock fish and striped bass. And i think you mentioned that on the one hand, you know rock fish are back. But on the other hand whats happening in terms of Climate Change could severely impact them. Did you want to add to that . One of the being concerns is a wasting disease. There is no real absolute knowledge as to what causes it. But we know that when fish are stressed, theyre more prone to disease. So the general thinking is that a fish under stress has a lot more problems than one that isnt. And certainly, the population is starting to dip again. Okay. Let me then go to lastly to dr. Ekwurzel. Because the noaa recently released the state of the climate in a 2014 report that represents da
Implement it going forward. Okay. Im going to skip mr. Baker because my questions were about rock fish and striped bass. And i think you mentioned that on the one hand, you know rock fish are back. But on the other hand whats happening in terms of Climate Change could severely impact them. Did you want to add to that . One of the being concerns is a wasting disease. There is no real absolute knowledge as to what causes it. But we know that when fish are stressed, theyre more prone to disease. So the general thinking is that a fish under stress has a lot more problems than one that isnt. And certainly, the population is starting to dip again. Okay. Let me then go to lastly to dr. Ekwurzel. Because the noaa recently released the state of the climate in a 2014 report that represents data from scientists around the globe and i know you stressed you gave us a lot of information about annapolis and maryland. But i if i could just go, you know, beyond that you know, according to the state of
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summarize briefly. The impacts of Climate Change are multiple, but let me tell you about three for Chesapeake Bay. Warmer waters have a decreased capacity to hold dissolved oxygen exacerbating the bays dead zone. Temperaturesensitive species like eel grass and many others are really, truly at risk. Second, the bay region is particularly vulnerable to Sea Level Rise exacerbated, exacerbated by land subsidence. Approximately one foot of net Sea Level Rise in the chesapeake over the last 100 years is ro