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7/31/23  12:54 pm
Commenter: Barbara Hennig-Loomis

purse seine regulation petition
 

Purse Seine net depths should be regulated in order not to cause contact with the sea floor within Virginia waters, particularly the Chesapeake Bay. As a resident of Virginia's Eastern Shore,located near Kiptopeke,  we have been impacted by the damage caused by Omega Protein's operations to include dead fish on our beach. As recreational fishermen, it's been impossible to ignore what the overfishing of Menhaden in the Bay has done to other fish stocks.

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