                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MENHADEN MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED (§ 28.2-208.2)

The Commissioner shall establish a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee (the
Committee) to provide guidance to the Commission on the sustainable management
of the menhaden resource and harvest of the bait and reduction fisheries 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
residents of the Commonwealth with knowledge of the menhaden resource, to be
appointed by the Commissioner, 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
Fisheries Commission.

HISTORY: 2020, cc. 201, 356.