<figure id="attachment_5383" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5383" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Two-NRP-officers-check-a-watermans-catch.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-5383" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Two-NRP-officers-check-a-watermans-catch.jpg" alt="Two NRP officers check a waterman's catch." width="500" height="374" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5383" class="wp-caption-text">Two NRP officers check a waterman&#8217;s catch.</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recreational Angler Busted with 32 Undersized Rockfish; No Fishing License</span></h2>
<figure id="attachment_9378" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-9378" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Boby-McCauleys-bust-300x225.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9378" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Boby-McCauleys-bust-300x225-300x225.jpeg" alt="These 32 undersize rockfish seized from outlaw recreational angler who was illegal in every way. " width="300" height="225" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-9378" class="wp-caption-text">These 32 undersize rockfish seized from outlaw recreational angler who was illegal in every way.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">KENT NARROWS, MD. &#8212; Hola, Hombre! One man was taking a siesta while another was hard at work snatching up every fish that swam near him, say police. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Bladensburg man was charged Saturday with catching and keeping 32 undersized striped bass by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Camilo Arturo Paez Herrera, 26, received citations for fishing without a license, exceeding the daily creel limit, possessing undersized striped bass and fishing outside legal hours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Officers on patrol near the MD 18 drawbridge at Kent Narrows received a call at 6 a.m. about someone fishing illegally. When they arrived, they found one man fishing and one man sleeping in a car. The officers saw a clear plastic bag on the car floor filled with undersized striped bass and found another bag under the bridge containing more undersized fish.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Herrera admitted to fishing since about 2 a.m.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Herrera will be required to appear in Queen Anne District Court on the three fishing violations. The court date has not been set.</span></p>
<h2>Great Wall Seafood didn’t get the message; DNR issues citations in a Fortune Cookie</h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GERMANTOWN, MD. &#8212; Perhaps the owners of the Great Wall Seafood Market, with locations in Rockville and Germantown, didn’t read their fortune cookies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Maryland Natural Resources Police make it clear to all which species are legal and which are illegal.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The shops received citations after officers found a total of 61 live Asian swamp eels for sale. Swamp eels are an invasive species that competes with native species and can destroy local aquatic and wetland ecosystems. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Swamp eels are prohibited from import, transport, sale, purchase and possession in Maryland</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Each market was cited for possession and sale of the eels. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They are scheduled to appear in Montgomery District Court on Nov. 10. If found guilty, each market could be fined as much as $50,000. The case also is under review by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</span></p>
<h2>Catch those snakehead fish but kill them good and dead</h2>
<figure id="attachment_9370" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-9370" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Snakehead-record-Murphy-at-Marbury.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9370" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Snakehead-record-Murphy-at-Marbury-300x220.jpg" alt="Snakehead record caught by Todd Murphy at Marbury" width="300" height="220" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-9370" class="wp-caption-text">Snakehead record caught by Todd Murphy at Marbury</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MARBURY, MD. &#8212; After the record catch of a snakehead fish by Todd Murphy of Marbury, Md., interest is spiking for those seeking the great eating fish, some say is better than rockfish.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Candy Thompson, spokeswoman for the Natural Resources Police told THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY that the Department of Natural Resources encourages all anglers to fish for and keep all of the Snakehead Fish they can find. “What we don’t want people to do is to put them in live-wells and transport them, keep them in tanks or otherwise keep them alive,” said Thompson. “Kill them, don’t catch and release, they are an invasive species and are harmful in many ways to our waters and native species. They are good to eat and once they are dead and on ice, you are free to do with them as you wish.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Specifically, she said the law doesn’t prohibit the sale by anglers or commercial fishermen of the Snakeheads they catch, some of which are now in monster proportions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thompson said the proliferation of Snakehead fish in Maryland began when a resident of Crofton had two in a tank which he was planning to turn into soup. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As time passed and he didn’t get around to the soup, the Snakeheads began to grow and grow. Thus the man took the fish and dumped them in a pond near a strip mall along Rt. 3 and the rest is history.</span></p>
<h2>Cameron Seafood sells baby crabs; faces another round of fines</h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">HAGERSTOWN, MD. &#8212; Caught in 2014 with undersize crabs, Cameron Seafood is at it again, says Natural Resources Police.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_5059" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5059" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Blue-crabs-looking-for-a-pot.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5059" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Blue-crabs-looking-for-a-pot-300x225.jpg" alt="These legal size Blue crabs caught off the Bill Burton State Fishing Pier at Cambridge, Md., are looking for a pot to steam in. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo" width="300" height="225" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5059" class="wp-caption-text">These legal size Blue crabs caught off the Bill Burton State Fishing Pier at Cambridge, Md., are looking for a pot to steam in. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Hagerstown seafood retailer is scheduled to appear in Washington District Court on Sept. 17 after receiving a citation from NRP selling undersized crabs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On July 10, a NRP officer conducted an inspection at Cameron’s Seafood on Dual Highway. Two bushels of crabs exceeded the legal limit of five undersized crabs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One contained 17 undersized crabs, the other contained seven.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hussein Kato Katende, 39, of Columbia, the manager of the shop, was given a citation and a warning. Last year, he was twice cited for selling undersized crabs and was fined $400. If found guilty this time, the maximum fine is $1,000.</span></p>
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