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CRISFIELD, MD. — It's another winter day that Crisfield watermen are forced to stay off their boats, but the spring may be the start of even bigger problems.

 

“We were hoping it wouldn't come to this,” says Doug Hall, a waterman in Crisfield, Maryland.

 

In Maryland, the current law requires that the minimum size of "peeler" or soft-shell crabs that watermen can harvest is 3.25 inches until July 14th, when that requirement jumps to 3.5 inches. However, this year the Department of Natural Resources is making that regulation go into effect three months earlier, on April 1st.

 

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