Joe-
I am not very familiar with the commercial fishing industry in Maryland, but I am happy to consume my fair share. If you or one of your readers could provide some insite on the limited crab license buy back program, I'd appreciate it. Here are a couple of links to some news articles:
http://www.wmdt.com/
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/20428205/detail.html
Now if I am understanding this correctly, the state is offering to buy back the limited commercial crab licenses for $2,200.00 each, and they had hoped to buy back 2,000 licenses.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/commercial/commlicenses.html
Last year they sold 3,634 licenses for $50 each, for a total revenue of $181,700.00. The licenses are good until August 31st. Today is August 17th, and there are 14 days remaining on last year's licenses. The state is going to pay $4.52 MILLION dollars to buy back licenses that have 14 days remaining? How about NOT RENEWING the licenses for this year???
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7 comments:
I think their plan focuses on retiring the license for good.
While were talking licenses why do recreational fisherman need a license as little as they catch we are already taxed to death now if I want to feed my family with fish I have to pay a fee.
Rec. license fees go directly into maintaining the waterways that you enjoy fishing on. If you have to rely on your catch to feed your family, you have bigger problems than a fishing license
They are maintaining the waterways because of ? ? ? The corporations are polluting the water!
Come on folks. We are being taxed to death. Don't make excuses for it. Wake up.
I enjoy the outdoors and spend my spare time hunting and fishing. That being said, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if your livelihood comes from the harvesting of wild animals; your future isn't very secure.
effective this year every state, tidal and non-tidal will have license/registration requirements for fisherman......It is to be used as a management tool to better understand catch efforts....YES more taxes....... Yes too many people and too much polution...In 1975 there were less than 3 million people in Md. Now 5 million and going tp 6.4 in the near future..To keep the bay at it's current level of disgusting pollution requires more regulation and pollution control...
They want to remove latent effort(unused licenses) to reduce commercial effort in the long run???I do not get it
The $50.00 is to renew the license, not purchase one.
It is very difficult to purchase a new license from the state; you need verifiable time spent in the crabbing industry.
Anyway, the amount they are offering is not much. Licences are routinely sold with boats and are normally worth alot more than the states offer. Four years ago (a good year for crabbing) you could sell a license for 10K. The last few seasons have been bad, so they might get some takers.
You should look at what some of the southern states are paying for shrimp licenses. It is alot more than 2K.
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