DNR's Week Ahead and News Clippings

Via MD DNR:

March 24th (Sunday) - Spring Trout Stocking Closure #2 Begins and runs through March 30th

March 25th (Monday) - The MD DNR Snapping Turtle Work Group will meet from 6-9 PM in the C-1 Conference room of the Tawes State Office Building in Annapolis, MD. For more information, contact:rmorin@dnr.state.md.us

March 25th (Monday) - The MD DNR Spiny Dogfish Work Group will meet at 2 PM in the Coastal Bays Program office in Ocean City, MD. For more information, contact: ckennedy@dnr.state.md.us

March 29th (Friday) - There will be a meeting on crabbing charters at 1 PM in the C-4A conference room of the Tawes State Office Building in Annapolis, MD. For more information, contact: swidman@dnr.state.md.us

Recent Fisheries Related News Clippings:

Freshwater

Bill to Ban Fracking Killed by Senate Committee
The Daily Record
http://bit.ly/12uqDkL

Measuring the Flow: The Importance of Stream Guages

USGS Online
http://on.doi.gov/14hBrmj

Field & Stream to Honor Hagerstown Man as Hero of Conservation

Herald Mail.com
 http://bit.ly/13iZdys

Chesapeake Bay

Larry Simns Life Well Lived on the Water
The Baltimore Sun
http://bsun.md/YowYXB

State Watermen's Association President Passes Away
The Bay.net
http://bit.ly/Zb8CQ6

Why are Yellow Perch Disappearing from our Rivers
WAMU 88.5
http://bit.ly/116w8kW

Rebuilding Oyster Reefs in Harris Creek
Chesapeake Bay.Net
http://bit.ly/XpWXgV

Havre De Grace Ship Needs Help
Havre De Grace Patch
http://bit.ly/ZwNTcJ

Our Damaged Coasts: Rebuild or Retreat?
Southern Maryland Online
http://bit.ly/Yp3P1u

Governor O'MalleyCongratulates MD NRP on its 145th Anniversary
The Outdoor Wire
http://bit.ly/ZZvZNN

Three Public Piers Replaced in St. Mary's County
Southern Maryland.com
http://bit.ly/15A4L38

EDF Oceans Saddened by the Loss of Captain Larry Simns 
EDF
http://bit.ly/ZhsEbF

A Sandwhich with a Snap 
The Aberdeen News
http://bit.ly/YKeYpK

Maryland has a Crab Shortage
CBS Baltimore
http://cbsloc.al/Z9PqlM

Chesapeake Bay's intersex fish mystery remains unsolved
The Washington Post
http://ow.ly/j9xfO

Larry Simns, Maryland watermen's advocate, dies
The (Annapolis, Md.) Capital Gazette
http://ow.ly/j9xrF

Oyster Shell Recycling Drop-Off Sites in Annapolis
Patch.com (Annapolis, Md.)
http://ow.ly/j9xJE

AtlanticCoast

A Wind Win for Maryland: and a Beacon for the Bay
Southern Maryland Online
http://bit.ly/11jRzmp

Editorial: The sea is rising, the land is sinking
The Ocean City (Md.) Gazette
http://ow.ly/jjJOS

Mid Atlantic Fisheries Managment Council April Meeting Agenda
The Mid Atlantic Council
http://bit.ly/105DhR6

Major Skimmer Island Restoration Underway
The Maryland Coastal Dispatch
http://bit.ly/YtV9XA

National

USF&W Announces Funds to State Agencies Despite Sequester

The Fishing Wire 

http://bit.ly/14hDxT2

Congress to Discuss Fisheries this Week

The Fishing Wire 

http://bit.ly/Ybtria

Sharks and Manta Rays Receive CITES Protection

The Fishing Wire 

http://bit.ly/16NBCFd

The Fishing for Energy Partnership Awards Grant Funding to Reduce the Impacts of Derelict Fishing Gear and Marine Debris
MarketWire
http://ow.ly/jjJFR

Boom...Morgan