Oyster commission update
It's been nonstop oyster news here...
We posted recently that commercial fishermen wanted to add another waterman and a seafood processor to the new oyster commission, which is going to advise the state on what to do about the dismal oyster situation over the next few months.
A few minutes ago, DNR's oyster guy, Tom O'Connell, told me that the commission was going to stay as it is, with no new members. O'Connell pointed out that the commission already has one processor and one watermen, and that all the meetings are public anyway.
I asked him how Maryland Watermen's Association President Larry Simns was taking the news.
Tom's take? "I talked to him and he was fine with it."
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
