{"id":15655,"date":"2017-06-27T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=15655"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:21:56","slug":"modest-changes-coming-to-marylands-commercial-crab-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/06\/27\/modest-changes-coming-to-marylands-commercial-crab-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Modest Changes Coming to Maryland&#8217;s Commercial Crab Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Industry, Scientists and Stakeholders Approve Plan<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5647\/29795112370_6e40d7d19d.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"237\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kim Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following weeks of scientific review and discussion among key stakeholders, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is making modest but important changes to the commercial harvesting of Chesapeake Bay female hard crabs later this season.<\/p>\n<p>Harvesting will close Nov. 20, and bushel levels for the month of November will be reduced compared to the previous harvest year.<\/p>\n<p>These modifications are based on the results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/04\/19\/survey-finds-resilient-chesapeake-bay-blue-crab-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016-17 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey<\/a>, and subsequent review and approval by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/blue-crab\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Crab Industry Advisory Committee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/mgmt-committees\/tfac-index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the release of the winter dredge survey, experts have cautioned that a scarcity of juvenile crabs could result in more challenging harvest conditions later this year and next,\u201d said Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton. \u201cThis decision is the result of partners in science and industry developing consensus to achieve what is best for the health and ongoing productivity of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can review the Public Notice <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Documents\/PubNotCrabFemaleBushelLimit6-26-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry, Scientists and Stakeholders Approve Plan Following weeks of scientific review and discussion among key stakeholders, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is making modest but important changes to the commercial harvesting of Chesapeake Bay female hard crabs later this season. Harvesting will close Nov. 20, and bushel levels for the month of November will<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/06\/27\/modest-changes-coming-to-marylands-commercial-crab-harvest\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11,33],"tags":[3192,3291,3193],"class_list":["post-15655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","category-the-bay","tag-blue-crab-industry-advisory-committee","tag-blue-crabs","tag-tidal-fisheries-advisory-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15663,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions\/15663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}