SD5 - Fisheries Management

  • Published: 1984
  • Author: Secretary of Commerce and Resources
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 24 (Regular Session, 1983)

Executive Summary:
Attached is a report prepared in response to Senate Joint Resolution No. 24 which required a report to the General Assembly on the steps necessary to implement the economic and administrative policy options presented in JLARC's report on the Economic Potential and Management of Virginia's Seafood Industry.

This report is organized in order to present:

• a summary of the steps being taken to implement JLARC's recommendations;

• a recommended fisheries management policy, together with changes that would be required to place the policy in the Code; and

• each agency's complete evaluation of, recommendations regarding, and implementation plans for each JLARC recommendation.