Surprise-Surprise!!! Crab catch limits for rest of year through June 2025.

Started by Harford Crabber, June 27, 2024, 04:38:12 PM

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Harford Crabber

The Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the recreational male hard crab catch and possession limits for the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries for July 2024 through June 2025. Effective 12:01 a.m. July 1, 2024, the recreational male hard crab catch and possession limits for individuals on a vessel are listed below. These regulations are unchanged from the previous year.

Daily Recreational Catch and Possession Limits for Boats

I love to fish, but I live to crab.

Harford Crabber

rest of the story:

Daily catch and possession limits for male hard crabs are based on the Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey results, conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Possession limits for July through December 2025 will be determined when results from the 2025 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey are available.

WHERE THIS NOTICE APPLIES

This applies to recreational crabbing on vessels in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries, including the Maryland tributaries of the Potomac River. This change does not affect recreational crabbing from shore in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries, nor any recreational crabbing in the Atlantic Ocean, its coastal bays, or tributaries.

WHY THIS IS NECESSARY

This action is necessary to ensure that male blue crab harvest does not exceed the Chesapeake Bay male conservation trigger referenced in Amendment 2 to the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan.

WHO THIS NOTICE AFFECTS

This applies to recreational crabbers who harvest male blue crabs on vessels in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries.

AUTHORITY
Code of Maryland Regulations 08.02.03.14G
I love to fish, but I live to crab.

Lakai113


Skiiffin

Rec's will never see 2 bushel again . Might as well get use to it .Stack your crabs neatly and fill to the tippy top .
A BAD DAY ON THE WATER .IS BETTER THEN A DAY AT WORK .
                           UNLESS IT'S RAINING !!  <*)=^=-(

Lakai113

Quote from: Skiiffin on July 01, 2024, 07:43:37 AMRec's will never see 2 bushel again . Might as well get use to it .Stack your crabs neatly and fill to the tippy top .


Yupp and it's not even the rec guys that are the issue for the "shortage". Decisions like this are all about $$$ pretty sad

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Logical1

Not Surprised since we are in Maryland. It doesn't really affect me much since I can get a bushel to myself on my kayak. But I do feel bad for my friends that like to take their boats. Many like to invite others to go along with them. This makes it prohibitive to cover the cost of fuel, bait, permits gas for vehicle etc. When they are only allowed 1 bushel to split with everyone on board.
There's no place like roam!

Samaritan

wondering how lenient DNR will be when they find me in my boat with a bushel and my brother rowing the tender with a bushel? "It's his ship and he's the capt. but he needed a tow home"

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