I 100% support this petition.

Due to the lack of managing commercial menhaden fishing in the Chesapeake Bay by the VMRC and the Governor of Virginia, change is needed. Due to the lack of managing menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay, by the ASMFC, dire change is needed in the commercial. purse seine menhaden fishery.

Reductions in annual commercial menhaden catches would have been nice to see, years ago. By now, changes to the Bay's ecosystem could have started to show positively. But now, as the environmental indicators, striped bass and osprey show, we are losing the battle with single minded, everything is OK attitude. 

It's not OK, hence the importance of this petition. The science shows osprey are suffering breeding problems worse than the height of the DDT disaster. The science shows striped bass are again falling to historic lows. 

Take the keystone species (menhaden) out of the ecosystem, without giving it a chance to rebound, what do you expect?

I fully support this petition and honestly do not expect VMRC to do a thing about it. Excuses will be found until they are compelled to make change. By God or by Governor.