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		<title>MD DNR Fisheries Service Public Regulatory Scoping Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. on May 9 in the Fellowship Hall at the Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis to present and obtain input on several regulatory ideas, including: -  Possible changes to the current commercial female blue crab closure periods and [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/05-2011/05/md-dnr-fisheries-service-public-regulatory-scoping-meeting/' addthis:title='MD DNR Fisheries Service Public Regulatory Scoping Meeting '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>CBF Criticizes Proposed Elimination of EPA Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) President William C. Baker issued a statement regarding Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s notice that he intends to file an amendment to the fiscal 2011 funding bill. According to the CBF, the amendment would eliminate all Environmental Protection Agency funding to “develop, promulgate, evaluate, implement, provide oversight to,” Bay clean-up efforts under [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/02-2011/18/cbf-criticizes-epa-funding-elimination/' addthis:title='CBF Criticizes Proposed Elimination of EPA Funding '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>MD DNR To Hold Oyster County Committee Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced the dates and locations for the election of county oyster committee representatives. Watermen who hold a commercial tidal fishing license (TFL) or Oyster Harvester License in every tidewater county may vote for five licensed hand tongers, five licensed power dredgers, five licensed patent tongers and five [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/05-2010/27/md-dnr-to-hold-oyster-county-committee-elections/' addthis:title='MD DNR To Hold Oyster County Committee Elections '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Requests $87 million in Funding for Natural Resources Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 11, 2010, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley requested $87 million in federal funding to support the State’s natural resources during his annual federal priorities presentation to the Maryland Congressional Delegation on Capitol Hill. The Governor’s requests included more than $30 million for Bay restoration efforts, part of a Maryland plan to meet its nutrient [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/03-2010/11/maryland-requests-87-million-in-funding-for-natural-resources-projects/' addthis:title='Maryland Requests $87 million in Funding for Natural Resources Projects '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Watermen &#8211; EDF Sign Crab Management MOU</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[to Explore New Ways of Managing the Blue Crab Fishery The Maryland Watermen&#8217;s Association (MWA) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have come together to explore alternative management strategies for the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery. This joint commitment, solidified by a formal memorandum of understanding, is intended to improve fishery management and increase benefits [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/03-2010/03/maryland-watermen-environmental-defense-fund-sign-mou/' addthis:title='Maryland Watermen &#8211; EDF Sign Crab Management MOU '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>DNR, ORP &amp; Watermen Continue Oyster Bar Rehabilitation Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 24, 2009 the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the next phase of a project involving the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) and Chesapeake Bay watermen on the state&#8217;s oyster bar rehabilitation program. The project is part of a plan to help mitigate economic losses from the declining blue crab fishery, while also helping [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/02-2009/24/dnr-orp-watermen-continue-oyster-bar-rehabilitation-work/' addthis:title='DNR, ORP &#38; Watermen Continue Oyster Bar Rehabilitation Work '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland Boating Industry Task Force 2008 Legislative Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Task Force to Study the Boating Industry in Maryland recently submitted its 2008 Legislative Report to Governor Martin O’Malley, members of the Maryland General Assembly, and Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary John R. Griffin. &#8220;Maryland’s boating industry is a major economic engine in our State, providing a wide array of services to both [...]<div><a class="addthis_button" href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250" addthis:url='http://www.chesapeake-bay.org/index.php/01-2009/22/maryland-boating-industry-task-force-2008-legislative-report/' addthis:title='Maryland Boating Industry Task Force 2008 Legislative Report '><img src="//cache.addthis.com/cachefly/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a></div>]]></description>
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