Officers stopped two vehicles under surveillance and found 28 striped bass, 21 of which were undersized.
Tag: Maryland Natural Resources Police.
McKiel had been drinking on board a friend’s sailboat on the evening of Thursday, October 1. Just after midnight, McKiel set out in the heavy fog and rain to his boat.
WESTERNPORT, MD. (Oct. 2, 2015) — The Maryland Natural Resources Police report that the mountain boys are restless and stirring on the roads, fields and streams of Western Maryland.
KENT NARROWS, MD. — Hola, Hombre! One man was taking a siesta while another was hard at work snatching up every fish that swam near him, say police.
A Bladensburg man was charged Saturday with catching and keeping 32 undersized striped bass by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.
Rescue Boat 71 was in the water shortly after dispatch with the crew heading north in the Susquehanna River to start the search. Just north of the boat launch the crew noticed a light in the water and headed towards the object. The crew located a male subject holding onto a cooler and pulled him aboard. The patient advised he was in a canoe that had overturned with another male and that he had lost contact with him before our arrival.
The vessel was holding about 14,000 pounds of croaker and other species of fish, many appearing to be undersized. Seventeen NRP officers from four counties were assigned to measure the entire catch, an effort that took 12 hours. The fish were kept under refrigeration in trucks provided by the waterman.
Approximately 3,500 pounds—or 25 percent—of the catch were found to be undersized. Those fish were seized and returned to the water.
Cook told NRP officers that he had killed as many as 13 deer during the 2014-15 season and that he had checked in, perhaps, eight of them. However, state harvest records showed just three deer checked in.
Acting on a tip, an officer checked the beach at Mountain Point at the tip of the island and found corn washed on shore near an offshore stationary hunting blind. Officers kept the area under surveillance and on Jan. 24 – the last day of duck season – found five hunters in the blind and in an anchored Jon boat. A large quantity of shelled corn was found in the boat launching area
Chinese Pirate Poacher Caught 2nd time in week; Crisfield commercial waterman Ryan Brittingham busted for poaching in oyster sanctuary – Ryan Christopher Brittingham, 25, of Crisfield, was charged with illegally harvesting wild oysters in an oyster sanctuary after officers conducting surveillance watched four vessels enter the protected area and remove 36 ½ bushels of oysters. The oysters were seized and returned to the sanctuary.
Two Talbot County watermen were charged last Friday by NRP officers with illegal oyster harvesting.
John Thomas Murphy, 36, of Tilghman, and James Edward Tyler Jr., 35, of Wittman, were caught taking oysters from more than 150 feet inside the Harris Creek Sanctuary off Tilghman Island.