{"id":8080,"date":"2015-01-26T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8080"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:35:58","slug":"nrp-charges-four-watermen-with-oyster-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/01\/26\/nrp-charges-four-watermen-with-oyster-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"NRP Charges Four Watermen with Oyster Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mdgov_imgRight wp-image-3897\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Resources Police Logo\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/07\/NRPcolor.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Four Eastern Shore watermen were recently charged with state wildlife violations by Maryland Natural Resources Police officers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Nanticoke waterman received citations last Tuesday for taking oysters from protected state waters for power dredging in the Nanticoke sanctuary in<strong> Wicomico County<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers on patrol at 6:30 a.m. watched as Adam Rodney Antes, 32, entered the sanctuary on his boat, Kimberly Dawn, and began working an area more than 150 feet inside the boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Antes is scheduled to appear in Wicomico District Court on April 7 on charges of unlawful harvesting and operating a vessel without proper running lights. If found guilty, he could be fined a maximum of $3,085.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 16, two commercial hand tonging vessels were observed harvesting oysters from the Howell Point-Beacon Sanctuary at the mouth of La Trappe Creek, a Choptank River tributary in <strong>Talbot County<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Steven Tarleton, 45, of Tilghman, was charged with harvesting oysters in a sanctuary and possession of nine bushels of oysters over the daily hand tong limit. Kevin Steven Tarleton Jr., 22, of Tilghman, was charged with harvesting oysters in a sanctuary and refusing to comply with a lawful order.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Paul Wilson, 20, also of Tilghman, was charged with harvesting oysters in a sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized a total of 51 bushels of oysters and returned them to the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>All three men are scheduled to appear in Talbot District Court on March 19. The maximum penalty for harvesting in a sanctuary is a $3,000 fine and a commercial license suspension of six months to one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Eastern Shore watermen were recently charged with state wildlife violations by Maryland Natural Resources Police officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[957,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}