It truly is sad, the bay is in bad shape and it needs to change, it is a national treasure that all surrounding states should be working together on in order to improve its condition. It reminds me of a day trip me and my wife took a couple years ago to St Michaels maritime museum. One of the exhibits was on John Smith, and there was a plaque with one of his quotes, i believe this was the one.... “A few Bevers, Otters, Beares, Martins and minkes we found, and in divers places that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of us ever seene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans.” Captain John Smith, 1608 He also had this to say about the bay.... "Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America. for large and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for means of habitation . . .” I can only imagine the beauty and abundance of the bay as Mr Smith saw it 400 years ago.