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Committee fixes seafood-dealer bill to restore intended exemptions for small commercial fishers
Summary
The Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit Committee approved House Bill 39 to correct a coding error in last year's law, reinstating the full section intended and exempting commercial shrimpers, oystermen, crabbers and hook-and-line and net fishermen from a fee increase; the bill received a favorable report.
Chairman Brown told the committee that House Bill 39 corrects an error in last year’s legislation and creates a seafood marketing plan to be administered by Sweet Grown Alabama.
"What we're doing here is house bill 39... it creates a seafood marketing plan, that's administered…
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