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Archive for 2007/08


Lobster Thief Caught

Stolen lobsters were returned to the store
An accused lobster thief was trapped by police yesterday after they said he tried to leave a Rte. 9 grocery store with more than $50 worth of lobsters - disguised as a bag of mussels. Steven Wilson, 47, of Ashland, had put a price tag for five pounds of […]

Man Awarded $25,000 in Crab Cake Stabbing

Crab cakes
A 32-year-old Reisterstown man who stabbed a customer he claimed pushed ahead of him in a crabcake takeout line was ordered Wednesday to pay $25,000 restitution but will serve no jail time. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Michele D. Jaklitsch suspended a 10-year prison sentence for Keith Anthony Rantin Jr., of the 300 block […]

Maine Hatchery Releases Thousands of Tiny Lobsters

Baby Lobster
Thousands of tiny 2-week-old lobsters were released into Maine waters during the weekend as part of an ongoing effort to keep the state’s lobster populations strong. Working with local lobster men, staff from a Stonington lobster hatchery released an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 of the half-inch-long lobsters at two sites off of Vinalhaven on […]

Brothers Caught with Illegal Scallop Catch

Scallops
Two brothers have been fined $750 each and been ordered to forfeit their father’s boat after taking more than three times their legal limit of scallops. Mathew and Michael Osborne were found with 154 scallops, five of which were undersized. They were legally entitled to just 20 each, plus another 20 for their father who […]

Giant Crab

A crab measuring 12 feet, weighing in at 114 pounds and capable of grabbing a Toyota Yaris has arrived at Bray Beach. But beach goers about to take a dip needn’t panic. The Giant Japanese Spider Crab, which will grow to almost four meters, is the latest addition to the National Sea life Center on […]

Snow Crab Boat Being Investigated

Snow Crab
A snow crab boat based out of Millbrook is under investigation by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for a possible fisheries violation. But Adrian Gloade, manager of the Millbrook Fisheries, said the issue really amounts to no more than a simple mix-up and he does not anticipate charges will be laid. “We’re […]

Remains May be of Missing Fisherman

Memorial for people lost at sea
A state police forensic anthropologist is testing human remains dragged up from the ocean floor to see if they are from a commercial fisherman from Burlington Township whose scallop boat sank in May, state police said. The remains are believed to possibly be those of Capt. Mark Drayton. They were […]

Police Confiscate 60 Tons of Illegal Salmon

Police in Kamchatka have confiscated over 60 tons of salmon fishes from poachers in just one day, sources in the press service of the Kamchatka territory Interior department said. Poachers delivered the fish to the regional capital Petropavlovsk by trucks. It was to be sold are local markets, as well as to be shipped to […]

English Lobsterman Damages Shipwreck

Shipwreck under water
A careless lobster fisherman is being blamed for damaging the site of one Britain’s earliest known shipwrecks. The vessel, which sank off the South Devon coast about 3,500 years ago, was carrying a valuable cargo of swords and jewelery from France. The site was discovered two years ago and marine archaeologists had spent […]

Two Convicted of Shrimp Equipment Theft

Pontoon boat
Following a delay to obtain a creole interpreter, two Haitian male employees of Caribbean Recycling Company – located in the Queens Highway Com-commercial Zone – were formally charged yesterday morning before Acting Deputy Chief Magistrate Helen Jones with stealing and receiving almost $80,000 worth of property from the Bahamas Shrimp Company, situated in the […]