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logo 9/24/2024 10:20:58 AM     
environmentalists push for partial moratorium on Chesapeake menhaden catch 
By Jeremy Cox US Source: bayjournal 12/19/2023
Jeremy Cox
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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