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Md. Wants To Buy Back 3,676 Blue Crab Licenses
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Maryland Natural Resources officials are offering to buy back 3,676 commercial catcher licenses to improve management of blue crab populations.
The department mailed letters Wednesday to anyone with a commercial limited crab catcher license, hoping inactive license holders will sell the license back.
Officials said inactive licenses are obstacles to measuring harvest management strategies and ensuring fair wages for full-time crabbers because of the number of people who may or may not harvest crabs.
License holders must submit a bid for the value of their license by July 31 so the Department of Natural Resources can decide if it will pay that amount by August 15.
If inactive licenses aren't sold back, the license faces new regulations to be proposed in fall 2009.
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