environmentalists push for partial moratorium on Chesapeake menhaden catch

environmentalists push for partial moratorium on Chesapeake menhaden catch

Source: bayjournal

12/19/2023

Credit: Dave Harp

Sportfishing groups and environmentalists are calling for a partial moratorium on Virginia’s menhaden reduction fishery, citing troubling declines of certain bird and fish species that feed on them.

A petition, dated Dec. 12 and signed by 18 individuals and organizations, presses the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) to ban related menhaden harvests in the state under most conditions until regulators enact a scientifically based catch limit within the Chesapeake Bay.

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