ANNAPOLIS — New restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay will take effect this year after the blue crab count plummeted to its lowest level since surveys began in 1990. Tighter harvest limits are being issued by both Maryland and ...

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Rare is the court docket where the charging officers more than double the number of defendants. But there were 15 members of the Maryland Natural Resources Police on Friday in Towson, taking up one side of a Baltimore County District Court courtroom.

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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia is shedding its late 19th century system of taxing oysters by the bushel for a user fee that will spare watermen mounds of paperwork and return the revenue generated by the fee back to the Chesapeake ...

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ANNAPOLIS — For months, there’s been a countdown on the Maryland Seafood website, ticking down the months, days, hours, minutes and even seconds to the most anticipated seafood season of the year: crabbing season. Monday marks the start of crabbing ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland crabbing industry officials say electronic harvest reporting is catching on. Maryland’s Blue Crab Industry Design Team says almost 270 commercial crabbers and crab dealers have expressed interest in participating in the electronic reporting program for the 2013 ...

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EASTON — Watermen and lawmakers on the Eastern Shore are asking state natural resources officials to ease tougher striped bass harvest regulations. The harvest quota was cut 5 percent after illegal nets were found last year with tons of striped ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Officials with Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources say the agency can use tracking devices while investigating poachers. Dorchester watermen complained of finding the tracking devices on their boats in January. On Tuesday, department spokesman Sgt. Art Windemuth said ...

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BALTIMORE — Predictions of a good Chesapeake Bay crab harvest are coming true, with some watermen saying they are unable to sell all of the crabs they are catching and prices are dropping. Watermen who go out without a dedicated ...

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