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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73975</law_id><section_number>28.2-208.2</section_number><catch_line>Menhaden Management Advisory Committee established</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="28.2">Fisheries and Habitat of the Tidal Waters</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Tidal Fisheries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Powers and Duties</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall establish a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) to provide guidance to the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> on the sustainable management of the menhaden resource and harvest of the bait and reduction <span class="dictionary">fisheries</span> in the waters of the Commonwealth, including the Chesapeake Bay. The Committee shall consist of not more than 12 nonlegislative citizen members who shall be <span class="dictionary">residents</span> of the Commonwealth with knowledge of the menhaden resource, to be appointed by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, including one representative of the menhaden reduction fishery, one representative of the menhaden bait fishery, one representative of a labor organization involved in the menhaden fishery, one recreational angler, one member of a Virginia-based conservation organization, one representative of the sportfishing industry, and the Virginia appointee to the Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee of the Atlantic States Marine <span class="dictionary">Fisheries</span> <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.</p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 201, 356.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
