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03/09/06
The diamondback terrapin needs more research and possibly more harvest restrictions, state natural resources officials said yesterday, but they stopped short of endorsing a full ban on catching the state reptile. Find Us On Facebook
That frustrates Marguerite Whilden of Annapolis, who's fighting to end the commercial harvest of terrapins. "They'll collapse and disappear while they're studying them," Ms. Whilden said following a hearing before the House of Delegates Environmental Matters Committee on a bill to halt the terrapin harvest She was the Department of Natural Resources' resident terrapin expert until her position was axed in 2003....
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