Young waterman Luke McFadden is charting his own course. TikTokking his livelihood and building a customer base for the crabs he harvests from the Chesapeake Bay.
This summer Maryland will impose new restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay including the first-ever limits on how many bushels of male blue crabs watermen can haul each day in response to a troubling decline in the population of the beloved crustaceans.
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The Baltimore County Council supports state legislation to shield Man O'War Shoals the last large relic oyster reef in the upper Chesapeake Bay from dredging.
State officials have sought for years to dredge millions of bushels of fossilized oyster shell from a massive reef in the waters off southeastern Baltimore County to help replenish oyster numbers in the Chesapeake Bay.