Chesapeake Bay Mean Surface Salinity 1985-2018

<p style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:&quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;"><strong>Open the Data Source:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/ags/rest/services/Modeling/salinity_surface/MapServer/0">https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/ags/rest/services/Modeling/salinity_surface/MapServer/0</a></p><p style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:&quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1rem; text-align:start; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;">This map service depicts interpolated mean salinity throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from 1985 through 2018. Salinity in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries varies from season to season and year to year, and depends largely on the amount of freshwater flowing into the Bay. Salinity affects such things as underwater grass species distribution, fish spawning habitat, oyster distribution and the likely distribution of the oyster-killing parasites Dermo and MSX.</p>