Maryland officials earlier this week announced new crabbing restrictions designed to boost the state?s dwindling blue crab population.

But some watermen say the rules ? including closing the crabbing season for females about seven weeks early and imposing bushel limits for female crabs ? could put some out of business.

Recommended Stories

USS Spruance breaks record for longest deployed destroyer since WWII

Mills strategist calls for Fishback to leave politics over false claims about investigations

Trump visits to safe red districts are a ‘considered strategy’ to fire up low-propensity voters: Byron York