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Pertaining to Atlantic Menhaden [4 VAC 20 ‑ 1270]
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1/13/25  11:39 pm
Commenter: Julie V. Kacmarcik-Richmond Audubon Society Conservation Chair

I support this petition Preserve Virginia's natural resources. Stop the menhaden harvest.
 

Menhaden harvesting in the Chesapeake Bay must stop. It is time for Virginia to get on board with the rest of the east coast and halt the overharvesting of a prime natural resource in the Bay, menhaden. Osprey are starving as the their main food source is being stripped away from them by the greed and self serving entitlement of industry to send the menhaden to Canada to feed farm raised salmon. The purse seine nets used to capture millions of tons of menhaden are indiscriminate and catch anything that is in their reaches...turtles, dolphins, red drum. Anything. Stop the calamity! 

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