Despite what some history books might suggest, Captain John Smith did not discover the Potomac. “If you look at the John Smith map of 1608 ... how to make fishing hooks out of catfish bone. Mostly, ...

On April 9, Connor Lynch, an angler fishing on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Cove, hooked and released a shortnose sturgeon, a fish not seen in the river since 2007. The Potomac Riverkeeper ...

Urban sections of the Potomac River are on the brink of becoming safe for swimming, but deforestation and polluted urban runoff are holding back efforts to clean up the waterway, according to a ...