Two watermen cited for striped bass violations
Two watermen were cited by Natural Resources Police for striped bass violations in the first week of the pound net and hook-and-line seasons.
Robert Hodge Newberry, 52, of Crumpton, was charged yesterday with possessing undersize striped bass, fishing for striped bass without a commercial hook-and-line allocation card and possessing untagged commercially caught striped bass.
While patrolling the Chesapeake Bay near Sharps Island, officers boarded the commercial fishing vessel, Open Ticket, and found 13 untagged striped bass and two undersize striped bass.
In the last decade, Newberry has been charged with fishing without a license, possession of undersized oysters, and catching both oversized and undersized striped bass.
Also charged yesterday: Dolan Lee Hurley, 67, of Cambridge, with failure to tag striped bass within 200 yards of his pound net. While patrolling off Cooks Point in the Choptank River, officers boarded a commercial fishing vessel stopped more than 1,000 yards from the pound net, and found 500 pounds of untagged striped bass.
Both men are scheduled for trial on Aug. 17 in Dorchester County District Court.
The pound net season opened on June 1 and the commercial hook and line season opened yesterday.
Comments
It'd be nice if they busted the guys with the mile long nets. You'd think they would do a sting or something once the nets are discovered
Posted by: Marc Wyatt | June 8, 2011 4:07 PM
candus, ihave no problem with your article except the truth needs to put out there about me, not just the charges. here they are : fishing w/o license not guilty. kent county court, possession undersized oysters not guilty kent county court. oversized rockfish during hookand line 41.5 " aug. 14 2008 fine paid. undersized rockfish during hook and line not guilty 2007. as for the nrp stop on tuesday the same tickets were issued 4 years ago by the same officer in a different county and were tossed out by the judge, the honorable f. parks of kent county for not having any proper base to the charges. what you should be writing on is the fact that no dnr were even seen from april 16 till this tuesday. this was observed by at least 10 charter captians including myself. don't forget the recreational catch exceeds the commercial catch by 200% during the warm months. where was nrp during the trophy season? are they targeting the commercial people only? fair is fair. don't forget candus that we live in the USA and we are all innocent till proven guilty!!!!! you know, i should have lisened to you during the governors campain and not have blasted o'malley. after all you said to me i should "watsh my back". god bless and take care, Capt. robert newberry 410-708-9851
Posted by: robert newberry | June 9, 2011 10:44 AM