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Two watermen plead guilty in striped bass poaching case

August 2, 2014 Mid Atlantic

Two Tilghman Island watermen pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to illegally taking 185,925 pounds of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay. Michael D. Hayden, 41, and William J. Lednum, 42, admitted to selling the striped bass for $498,293 through a ring they operated between 2007 and 2011, according to court documents. Read more here 07:24

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Virginia abided by menhaden catch limit for 2013

May 15, 2014 Mid Atlantic

In late 2012, Virginia and other Atlantic states adopted the first coast-wide catch limit for menhaden in a historic effort to save the “most important fish in the sea” from years of overfishing. Read more here

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Maryland assigning commercial fishermen catch shares – will have individual quotas of striped bass

December 26, 2013 Mid Atlantic

State fisheries officials say they’re not trying to hurt watermen. “Whenever you have a major change like this … you have winners and losers,” said Tom O’Connell, state fisheries director. “It sorts itself out.” Read more@baltimoresun 00:57

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Menhaden rules to be heard Today by Md. Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee

August 28, 2013 Mid Atlantic

For watermen, this is a chance for their voice to be heard on regulations that some, like Bob Newberry, who is a co-organizer for the Harvesters Land and Sea Coalition, say are negatively affecting their livelihood and aren’t necessary. “We’re just asking for our day in front of the AELR Committee to explain our side of the situation,” Newberry said. “At least for once the watermen of the state of Maryland are going to be able to have their side of the story heard,” [email protected] 11:57

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Frosh bill banning shark fin trade passes both Maryland chambers (filed under “another dumb politician”)

April 5, 2013 Mid Atlantic

Gazette.Net – “We have a global problem. We have a problem in the Chesapeake Bay, because sharks are being killed just for their fins in many places in the world,” Frosh said. “This is a bill that takes a small step toward fixing that.” continued

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MD’s Crab Harvest Leads Nation – WBAL News

September 20, 2012 Uncategorized

Maryland’s crab harvest last year led the nation. That’s according to figures released Wednesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service.

http://www.wbal.com/article/94116/2/template-story/MDs-Crab-Harvest-Leads-Nation

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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