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November 19, 2009

Chesapeake crabbers not going for Va.'s buyout

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.—To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster aid to buy back crabbing licenses.

Many longtime crabbers won't take the bait, though, preferring a backbreaking job with dwindling returns to no job at all.

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