{"id":27768,"date":"2019-06-18T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=27768"},"modified":"2019-06-18T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:04:34","slug":"market-cited-for-selling-egg-bearing-female-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/06\/18\/market-cited-for-selling-egg-bearing-female-crabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Cited for Selling Egg-Bearing Female Crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tip Leads to Inspection of Montgomery County Business<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5560\/14504644394_5519989ff4.jpg\" alt=\"Logo of Maryland Natural Resources Police\" width=\"348\" height=\"320\" \/>Police charged Lotte Plaza Market in Germantown with offering three bushels of egg-bearing female blue crabs &#8212; known as sponge crabs &#8212; for sale in violation of the state\u2019s conservation laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After receiving a tip, <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/nrp\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Natural Resources Police<\/a> officers conducted an inspection of the market June 5. Store employees told police the crabs came from North Carolina, but were unable to produce a bill of lading. Sponge crabs can be <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Documents\/PubNotFemaleBlueCrabImport2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legally imported<\/a> from other states at certain times of the year (between May 11 and July 20 this year), but proof of their origin is necessary. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is always illegal to harvest female egg-bearing crabs in Maryland waters.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officers cited the company for the unlawful importation of egg-bearing female crabs. The citation can carry a penalty of $650. The three bushels of crabs were seized and donated to a food center in Rockville. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip Leads to Inspection of Montgomery County Business Police charged Lotte Plaza Market in Germantown with offering three bushels of egg-bearing female blue crabs &#8212; known as sponge crabs &#8212; for sale in violation of the state\u2019s conservation laws. After receiving a tip, Maryland Natural Resources Police officers conducted an inspection of the market June<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/06\/18\/market-cited-for-selling-egg-bearing-female-crabs\/\">&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":[957,11,14],"tags":[3291,4975,2907],"class_list":["post-27768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","category-nrp-news","tag-blue-crabs","tag-maryland-natural-resources-police","tag-montgomery-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768","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=27768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27775,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27768\/revisions\/27775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}