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Saving the Crab -- and the Watermen


(By Linda Davidson -- The Washington Post)
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We call on the governors, now that they have acted in response to the immediate crisis, to convene this forum and instruct it to fully design such a long-term management program.

-- Doug Lipton

College Park

-- Tom Miller

Solomons, Md.

-- Len Shabman

Washington

The writers are, respectively, associate professor and Sea Grant Extension Program leader at the University of Maryland at College Park; fisheries biologist and professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; and economist and resident scholar at Resources for the Future.


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