MILLSBORO, Del. (AP) -- A Delaware man is due in court next month on charges that he was crabbing without a commercial license.
James Crossland, of Millsboro, is scheduled to appear June 13 at the Court of Common Pleas in Georgetown. He was arrested Friday by Delaware fish and wildlife enforcement officers.
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Does anybody really care
Anonymous 11:53 it is obvious from your callous and ignorant statement that you do not make your living on the water. You sound like a pencil-pusher sitting behind your nice comfy desk acting like you're the one who has it hard when in reality you do not. Watermen have it hard in this day in time because of stupid regulations put into place by pencil-pushers who know absolutely nothing of the water and crabbing. Just because the guy did not have his license I do not acknowledge simply because I have seen people have their crabbing licenses revoked due to simply stupid rules. Watermen do what they must to get by and provide for their families. Many watermen know just crabbing and they are not able to learn another trade or apply for another job and yet they are still being wiped out by rules and by uncaring people just like you. You know absolutely nothing about the lives of watermen and their families and how hard it is to make a living on the water now. If you don't care about the situation keep your childish posts to yourself. Your measly four word sentence is a waste of this blog's space.
Waterman work their butts off just scrape by. The guy has every right to take two bushels a day as a recreational crabber. I'm afraid if he wants more than that then he will have to get in line. I know many that have wanted commercial crabbing licenses, but there are none to be had. No one wants someone encroching on their livlihood illeagally. It's a criminal act and should be procecuted as such.
I'm with you 11:53.
whoa whoa 2:38,
So lets get this straight. A kid who is born into a crappy drug-riddled neighborhood with terrible schools and daily violence sales drugs because it's the only way he sees he can make some money and possibly get out of the situation one day. That kids needs to be locked up for his poor choices. But the waterman who decided on his own freewill to pursue crabs for a living and chose not to take advantage of those same opportunities that were supposedly available to the kid, well we should be sorry for him?
7:35 how can you possibly compare drugs and crabs? That analogy makes no sense. Drugs have been illegal for YEARS and on top of that they KILL PEOPLE. When is the last time you have heard of anyone being killed by a crab or addicted to a crab? And what I am talking about is the fact that the regulations put into place are the problem. Whether you agree or not. penalizing waterman who have lived their whole lives crabbing and making a living that way are all of a sudden being placed under extremely misguided and useless rules. Whether you like it or not being a drug dealer and a waterman are definitely NOT the same thing and, once again, I do not understand how you even made that connection. For years watermen have been able to crab as they please and if there were regulations they were understandable ones. You look at some being placed now and certain individuals are being limited to TWO BUSHELS PER DAY! Do you have any idea how pathetic that is? Especially when each waterman who worked his ass off to get it has to sell it to the middle man for a measly $15? That isn't even enough to cover 5 gallons of fuel. Bottom line, I have a problem with watermen being able to crab and make a living for years and now all of a sudden people who have no idea what is going on decides to place restrictions and essentially wipe out the ways of life for many many people when they truly have no idea what it is like to live on the water. So yes, I think you should feel sorry for people in that position if you have a heart. The child you are referring to in your post I also feel sorry for; however, the circumstances are just different. The choices that child made were illegal from the beginning and that child also had to know that other ways of life were out there. Honest ones. Also the child had the opportunity (like you said) to go to school and pursue a career. Unlike many watermen, that child's livelihood was not changed overnight when he was far past the age of going back to school and starting a career. I do not understand how anyone could NOT sympathize with watermen today simply because their lives are changing drastically and not for the better.
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