I fully support the petition.  The current management of the Atlantic menhaden reduction fishery is in violation of Virginia Code 28.2-203.  Specifically, the Virginia Code requires the Virginia Marine Resources Commision (VMRC) to address the impact of the Atlantic menhaden reduction fishery regulations on commercial fishing for food production, recreational fishing, and the best scientific, economic, biological, and sociological information available.  The VMRC is currently ignoring these code requirements.  This mismanagement has led to an ecological and economic disaster for the Virginia and Maryland recreational fishing industry and to the starvation of osprey in the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia waters.  This disaster is fully documented by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sworn testimony before the VMRC, and peer-review publications regarding the status of osprey in the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay.