Just before 5 p.m. on March 1, Maryland State Police, Natural Resources Police and the U.S Coast Guard conducted side-scanning sonar operations in an underwater debris field. The debris field was located approximately 5 miles from the initial oil slick in the Atlantic Ocean.
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On his Facebook page, Meilhammer posed with a big rockfish he caught and presumably did not hammer Meilhammer in the head when it flew into the boat.
Bartels was already facing DUI-drugs charges in Howard Count
The subject displayed no indications of contusions or other marks on the body.
CAMBRIDGE, MD. – In one of the rare occasions when Maryland prosecutors and judges have gotten serious with an outlaw Waterman one poacher pirate just may be having his timbers shiver.
Lehnhoff was one of four riders stopped at about 7:30 p.m. in the McKeldin area of the park. One rider bolted and Lehnhoff attempted to do the same, in the process pinning an officer’s leg between his bike and her all-terrain patrol vehicle.
Police report that on Sept. 4, 2015, Scott Frederick Dustin, 48, of 2890 Poffenberger Road in Middletown, Md., was charged with impaired boating near the Big Slackwater boat ramp in Sharpsburg.
Last year, officers wrote 281 citations for oyster violations ranging from possessing undersized oysters to poaching oysters in protected sanctuaries.
“This Commission has revoked ten licenses so far this year, and the Commission is quite prepared to revoke more if necessary. We don’t ask much of those who fish in tidal waters: Just obey the law and file mandatory harvest reports accurately and on time,” said Commissioner John M. R. Bull.
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.