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VMRC adopts emergency 2025–26 oyster season; approves mechanically assisted hand tongs for clean‑cockle harvest
Summary
The commission adopted emergency regulations setting the 2025–26 public oyster season (areas 25/26/CBPT etc.) effective Oct. 1 and voted to allow mechanically assisted hand tongs for clean oysters; the motion passed 5–2 with two commissioners opposing.
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission on Sept. 23 adopted emergency regulations to set the 2025–26 public oyster harvest season and approved mechanically assisted hand tongs for the clean‑oyster hand‑tong fishery.
Chief Kenyon told the commission staff had missed a statutory newspaper‑advertising deadline required for a standard public hearing, which blocked a normal notice period. To avoid leaving the oyster season undefined before October and to provide the industry with a regulatory framework, staff recommended an emergency adoption that will be publicly noticed and returned to the commission for formal adoption in October. Emergency regulations…
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