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VMRC closes 2024–25 winter crab-dredge season and keeps pot-season dates unchanged
Summary
VMRC voted to close the winter crab-dredge season for 2024–25 and, after lengthy debate about uncertain March harvests and recent extensions of daily fishing hours, decided to keep crab-pot season dates unchanged (status quo); dredge closure passed 6–1, and the pot-season status-quo motion passed 6–1.
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted to close the 2024–25 winter crab-dredge season and, after extended debate, kept the existing crab-pot season dates.
Staff reviewed the legal authority (Code of Virginia Section 28.2707), the history of a 2008 fishery disaster that led to prior dredge closures and the results of CMAQ and VIMS consultations. VMRC staff said the state repealed a prior prohibition on dredging earlier in the year and that, without new regulations, the fishery would…
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