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Here are the crab industry advisory committee's agreed-upon option for bushel-limit reductions in the 2013 crabbing season. These limits will ensure that the 2013 harvest of mature female crabs stays in balance with the substantially lower number of crabs that are available to the fishery this year. The 2013 harvest target for mature female crabs is 10% lower than the 2012 harvest level and these limits will achieve the 10% reduction.

The Department will issue a public notice early next week in order to ensure full conservation benefits. ...

Annapolis, Md. - The State of Maryland and the Department of Defense (DoD) today entered into a first-of-its-kind agreement to work together to protect and enhance Maryland's coastal resources, in a signing at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlines how DoD facilities and projects will meet the federal law requirements of the Coastal Zone Management Act to ensure that their actions affecting these resources are consistent with State policies.

"I want to thank our federal partners for joining us in our goal of strengthening and revitalizing our State's watershed through the efficient and sensitive management of our coasts," said Governor Martin O'Malley. "This partnership helps us strike a better balance between people and nature, ensuring the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem including birds, fish, wildlife, waterways and ...

Jonathan Wilkerson of Oxford was fishing Kerr Reservoir with 10lb. test and a plastic fluke on March 20 when he hooked into a 23.5 lb new state record freshwater drum. It had been more than a year since a N.C. record has been broken.

Incredibly, less than two weeks later another record was shattered when 17 year-old Holly Springs resident, Joey Boretilli, caught a football-shaped white crappie weighing in just shy of four pounds. He was fishing a Storm WildEye Swim shad lure. ...