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Local waterman offers crabbing, fishing trips
Although it’s been several years since he last taught at Cambridge-South Dorchester High School, local waterman Fred Pomeroy has never left the classroom. Today, Captain Fred, the owner-operator of Stoney Cove Charters, takes visiting families on the Little Choptank River and teaches them how to dip for crabs on a commercial-length trotline. Along the way, they learn river navigation, the life cycle of a crab and receive a history lesson on Chesapeake Bay watermen. >click to read<11:47
Will a great year for Chesapeake Bay crabs mean a great year for Watermen?
At 4:41 a.m., Bubby Powley looked at his watch, looked at the thin, pink glow to the east, and looked at the dark water sliding past his boat. According to Maryland state law, he was allowed to start catching crabs exactly one hour before sunrise, and that was right . . . about . . . “Now. Dontcha think, Monroe?” Powley said, hitting a lever on a boom that lifted his first batch of the day from the Chesapeake Bay. The sprightly 66-year-old swung the basket inboard, where his culler of 42 years, Monroe Dorsey, 68, a slim cigar clenched under his white mustache, dumped a few dozen wriggling crustaceans into a fiberglass basin. It was a pretty good haul in what so far has been a very good crab harvest. Dorsey measured male after male with a plastic caliper and tossed those of five inches or more into one of the six and a half bushels Powley would sell later that day to a wholesaler. The summer is getting off to a promising start along America’s biggest estuary,,, Read the rest here 15:31
Hang on Chesapeake Bay Watermen, EDF has the catch share plan to make your lives just ducky! Say good bye to your way of life and tradition.
EDF: A better way to manage the crab harvest We need to take crab management to the next level if we want to build and secure the long-term health and vitality of the Chesapeake’s blue crab population for future generations of blue crab eaters and harvesters. more@baltimoresun 14:37
This ENGO fails to address the real issues of the Bay, and the issues of the crab stock. Same ‘ole warped notions of race to fish, controlling your destiny. It’s total Bull Bleep. Don’t let them continue the destruction of the family fishing operations, because they have YOU in the crosshairs of elimination.
