Kehoe, J.
Maryland has regulated the harvesting of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries since 1868. The era when the law was enforced by Maryland's "Oyster Navy"—ships armed with cannon and, later, machine guns, and crewed by men more than willing to use them—has
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