Officers seized a tractor-trailer filled with 188 bushels of oysters Wednesday night. Rhoderick J. Newman, 66, was arrested and charged with one count of attempting to transport undersized oysters out of state and five counts of possession of undersized and un-culled oysters, according to the Department of Natural Resources website.
“The taxpayers of Maryland have spent millions of dollars to restore oysters to their natural habitat. … They are keystone species,” Candy Thompson, a Natural Resources Police spokeswoman, said.
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I respect what a honest waterman does for a living but this is disgusting .The ones breaking the law have been getting away with for years.Time to teach them a lesson.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the state will do with the seized oysters?
ReplyDeleteArticle says they had to hurry with the measuring so they could get them back into the water.
ReplyDeleteWhen I left Fla in 1988, undersized lobsters were $500 EACH, and the boat you used to get them, and the car you drove them home in, and if there were any in your freezer, you lost the house, too.
I laughed when I got here and saw a waterman getting busted in VA. for undersized crabs @$5 each! He had 3 bushels at the dock, and got to keep his boat!
said they were working to get them back in the water. Not really a fan of DNR, cause they always seem to harass the family man and let the commercial guys off. bout time they earn their pay!
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