Hairy Potters?

[Black Irish]

Now this here video/story is one of the biggest pieces of poop-aganda I have seen in quite some time. It really should come as no surprise that the MWA's professional lobbyist is trying to apply another layer of teflon on overfishing for the current crab problem.

Alex Demetrick needs to get up to speed. The bay has had a runoff problem since the glaciers retreated a few eons ago. Take a broader look at the ecosystem, the filter feeders and scavengers have been all but removed. When a gap like that opens up, nature fills it in. Their replacements are algae and bacteria that now try to absorb the nitrogen. The cycle has been changed and the consequences are less than desirable. Maybe it can be reversed, maybe not. Time will tell. I can guarantee that as long as oysters, menhaden, clams, crabs, etc. are removed at a rate faster than they can replace themselves, the problem will not go away.

Watermen: Crab Supply Not Near What It Should Be - wjz.com (http://wjz.com/food/crabs.2.1104956.html)

[longtail]

Talk about "Poop Agendas".

Take this to the Conservation board, where it belongs!

[phillyfire]

stop commercial menhaden fishing. that alone will improve things and for god sakes bring in the asian oyster!

[BowMovements]

stop commercial menhaden fishing. that alone will improve things and for god sakes bring in the asian oyster!

All that will do is drive up bait prices for those of us who use pots. :nono:

[Butthead]

After the heavy rain we had the other night, I went across the street to check my boat. There is a huge drain pipe that dumps into the creek that I live on...that creek dumps into the bay about 500 yards from that pipe.

The water was pouring out of that pipe....the water that is filled with fertilizer, dog sh*t, oil, antifreeze, and god knows what else...was pouring out of that pipe and right into the bay.

I've never been much of a tree hugger, but that opened my eyes wide. I LOVE the Chesapeake like she is my own kin. I am ambilically connected to her, and 95% of the recreation in my life revolves around the Chesapeake. I felt like crying when I saw that.

Annapolis should be ashamed of what they are allowing to happen. For the cost of M&T Bank stadium and Fedex Field, they could install filter systems in most of these runoff pipes.....What an f'ing crime that is!!

[Ray Parvis]

...or build them with the 5,000,000 they stole from the flush tax fund. That is what the flush tax is for... not to balance the budget.

[Capt.Nick]

Hairy pots have been around for along time.Back in the 70s & 80s(When I thought it was fun to run crab pots)They'd get so full of hair..they'd look like little duck blinds when you pulled em up.You'd have to poke a hole with your thumb in 2 sides.One hole to let enough light in and the other to look in so you could see if there were any crabs inside...No lie.:eek:

[redbeard]

so black is saying that overfishing is the problem and not polution??????? crabs have been comm. harvested from the bay for a very long time without a problem. the # of comm. crabbers fishing the bay has steadily declined over the last 20 years because of dwindling # of crabs to catch. if the bay was'nt so polluted we would'nt be having this conversation. this thread is nothing but a bunch of poop-agendafrom black.

[Alley Cat]

so black is saying that overfishing is the problem and not polution??????? crabs have been comm. harvested from the bay for a very long time without a problem. the # of comm. crabbers fishing the bay has steadily declined over the last 20 years because of dwindling # of crabs to catch. if the bay was'nt so polluted we would'nt be having this conversation. this thread is nothing but a bunch of poop-agendafrom black.
Until this year I had not noticed the number of pots going down in the upper bay even if the number of crabbers had been going down. This year I have seen very few pot floats and alot of pots setting on docks and boats. Crabs stiil appear to be plentiful at the crab houses, maybe from out of state.