Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Overharvesting and Selling Chesapeake Blue Crabs
A Virginia Man has pleaded guilty to overharvesting Chesapeake blue crabs and selling them in Maryland.
Court documents say James Warren Eskridge, 45, exceeded the maximum harvest and sale of blue crabs between March 20, 2023 and April 20, 2023.
Blue crabs are the most valuable fishery in the Chesapeake Bay and are subject to strict limits by law. At the time of Eskridge’s violations, licensed commercial crabbers in Virginia were only allowed to harvest up to 27 bushels of blue crab per day. However, on two...
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