ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has banned two men from fishing for striped bass for life after they were convicted in a poaching scheme. The department said in a news release Monday that Michael Hayden Jr. and ...

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No matter how you measure it, Tochterman’s Fishing Tackle is a keeper. The shop in Baltimore’s Fells Point is one of only a few fishing tackle shops in the country located in a major city and among the 12 percent ...

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OCEAN CITY — When the longline on the Sea Born is engaged, which is most of the time when it’s out in the Atlantic, two video cameras record everything on the deck and side of the boat. The cameras look ...

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Water clarity in the Chesapeake Bay has improved and oysters and underwater grasses have made gains, but declines in blue crabs and rockfish have marred progress overall for the health of the nation's largest estuary, a report released Monday said.

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A new website and smartphone app, on which a group of Maryland-area recreational anglers worked for months, is expected to enhance the quality of a federally run program that tracks and helps manage recreational fisheries.

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia thinks something smells rotten about the way prosecutors went after a Florida fisherman who threw undersized grouper off his boat.

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In his bright yellow motorized kayak, Langston Majette glided across the waters beneath the Naval Academy Bridge in Annapolis.

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When you look at $200 plus for a bushel of blue crabs, shake your head and say "no way," there's just one thing to do: Blame it on the weather.

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Not even Supreme Court justices can resist a good fish story. The court said Monday it will hear the case of a Florida fisherman who wants the court to throw out his conviction for getting rid of some small grouper under a federal law originally aimed at the accounting industry.

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ST. MICHAELS — It’s still dark outside when Guy Spurry and his 19-year-old son Austin begin their day. Beneath the darkness of the November sky, the two men drive past the Eastern Shore fishing village of Neavitt, and pull up ...

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