Fisheries Regulation

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission has been slowly moving fishermen, the oyster industry and now commercial crabbers to mandatory online reporting of their daily catch.But in rural Tidewater, where many go without good cell coverage or internet, that’s a problem.

Virginia is the top supplier of seafood on the east coast. Our watermen harvest more than four dozen species – scallops and oysters, blue crabs, clams,…

Since 1976, Democrats and Republicans have worked together to regulate commercial and recreational fishing in this country, but that could change this…