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8/20/23  10:12 pm
Commenter: Cammie Smith

I do NOT support this petition
 

To randomly declare that a company's nets are destroying the grasses of the Chesapeake Bay is ridiculous and smacks of grabbing for straws. There is no scientific study to support this claim and in fact a recent VIMS study shows that the area of the Bay where the grasses are not thriving is located in Maryland, where Omega doesn't fish. https://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/2023/sav_report_2022.php

Unfortunately the folks behind these petitions and calls for closing the Bay to commercial fishing are not interested in facts. They are only interested in perpetuating a lie based on really nothing but their hatred of a company that they have no desire to learn the truth about. 

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