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Nov 2, 2009 1:35 pm US/Eastern

530 Md. Crabbing Licenses Retired Under Buyback

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ― Maryland natural resources officials say they have bought back and retired 530 crabbing licenses.

Many of the state's 6,000 crabbing licenses are not actively used and state officials are buying back licenses to make it easier to manage the crab population, which has dropped sharply.

The Department of Natural Resources says it will pay $2,260 per license until its budget is exhausted or it has purchased 1,327 limited crab catcher licenses. That's more than a third of the 3,676 existing LCC licenses.

The agency says it is also proposing new regulations for those who don't sell back their inactive LCC licenses. Inactive licensees would be required to either declare the license frozen until the crab population rebounds, or limit their harvest to male crabs.

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