I support the petition. The state of Virginia is the only state on the Atlantic coast to allow Industrial Reduction Fishing. Osprey reproduction in the lower Chesapeake Bay during the 2023 season was at an all time low and lower than during the height of DDT. VMRC is allowing the Canadian-owned industrial reduction fishery in Virginia to use purse seine nets to over-harvest the number one keystone species in the Bay, the Atlantic menhaden. Osprey and Striped bass are menhaden-dependent. The fragile ecosystem of the largest estuary in the country is being destroyed.