This cannot be good for the number of crabs in the bay.....

[Wahoo]

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2024/06/25/maryland-department-of-natural-resources-strongly-disagrees-with-virginias-decision-to-reopen-long-closed-blue-crab-winter-dredge-fishery/

[Mr. Breeze]

so MD limits the numbers of females that crabbers can take and all that are saved in MD will head further down the bay to VA where they will be taken by VA dredgers.  Might as well let the MD crabbers make the money and catch them all before they get to VA