"African-Americans are an amphibious body of people," he said at the time. "The black watermen of the Chesapeake Bay have the same kind of impact as the Tuskegee Airmen, the same impact as the ...

The Chesapeake Bay is a 64,000-square-mile watershed that ... nonprofit organizations. We’ve also hired watermen - who are rich in local knowledge - and their vessels for oyster reef seeding ...

Trained by the state of Maryland and the National Park Service, Chesapeake Bay ... “The communities of the Bay are living examples of this heritage, where watermen continue to work the waters ...

And with today’s passage of our Chesapeake National Recreation Area Act ... Black and Indigenous histories, the proud tradition of watermen and waterwomen and the bay’s impact on the region’s economy ...