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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EASTON — The head of the Queen Anne’s County Watermen’s Association says conditions are improving on the Chesapeake, where debris from Tropical Storm Lee has made it difficult to work on the bay. Moochie Gilmer says watermen have been rounding ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The fruit of a third of the work done by state agencies, organizations and fisheries to restore the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is being stolen through illegal harvesting, according to biologists who research oyster beds in ...

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The head of Maryland’s watermen’s association says new thinking is needed about how to manage the crab harvest. Larry Simns says stewardship by the commercial fishing industry is essential to maintaining abundant fisheries. And that’s why a committee of watermen ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors say one of Washington’s largest seafood wholesalers must pay more than a half-million dollar fine for illegal rockfish sales spanning more than a decade. The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office also announced Monday that the vice president ...

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DEAL ISLAND — Watermen who are upset about a drop in oyster prices have staged a strike in the hopes that buyers who must fill upcoming Thanksgiving orders will relent. The buyers had been paying as much as $42 per ...

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