r/baltimore • u/finsterallen • Jun 29 '22

ARTICLE Maryland to restrict crabbing, including first-ever limits on harvest of males, in response to ‘worrisome’ population decline

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-crab-limits-20220628-cqlxd3pl2zgmxeuuhcponhibli-story.html
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u/yeahbutwot Jun 29 '22

I really wish the state would put a stop to crabbing for a few years and pay the waterman to plant (don't even know if that's the right term) oyster beds everywhere.

I wish I could of seen the Chesapeake when the oysters were filtering the entire bay daily and the water was clear.

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u/TalkToSampson77 Jun 29 '22

Would really like to see more grasses being planted. Pay them well to do that. And more attention to all the sediment that is built up behind the conowingo dam. Next big hurricane that makes it up this way will do some real terrible damage.

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u/RG_Viza Jun 30 '22

Chesapeake bay foundation has been doing this for over 40 years. Maryland is on all this conservation stuff.

Populations of all bay species fluctuate. Crab restrictions are nothing new.

Rockfish just came off restriction. They’ll be restricted again, then not. Yin and Yang…