Taking comments on crabs
May 7, 2008
If you’re harboring a bone to pick about Maryland’s emergency limits on the blue crab harvest, you’ll have two chances to speak your mind.
The state’s Department of Natural Resources is holding two hearings on the issue, and the first takes place tonight in Cambridge.
The second (probably more relevant to those of you reading this blog) will be on Wednesday, June 4 in Annapolis.
So, if you’re a crabber opposed to the upcoming ban on recreational female crab catches, now’s your chance. Or maybe you’re a businessperson who disagrees with the reduction in the commercial harvest.
There’s always the chance that you agree with Sen. Mikulski, Sen. Cardin and Gov. O’Malley when they said that female crabs need “a breather” to boost their numbers. (Three years oughta do it, right?).
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
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My mother always taught me “everything in moderation”…and we all know our mothers are usually right. I am exhausted by the constant hype over one “crisis” after another. Reasonable limitations on our fisheries are certainly appropriate, but not so radical as to be at the expense of life-long commercial watermen. By the time the crabs come back there will no longer be anyone willing to make a career out of catching them! i recently read–i believe in the Sun–that some years back scientists were convinced we were about to have the next ice age….go figure! And go ask your mom!