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SMAC recommends staff explore emergency rule to allow short Eastern Shore season changes
Summary
The advisory committee recommended staff pursue emergency regulation authority so the Commission could short-set or adjust small Eastern Shore seasons if harvesting threatens resource health; staff cautioned emergency rules require justification and run against current executive-order review windows.
During "other business" SMAC members raised enforcement and emergency-season questions and recommended staff investigate an emergency-regulation pathway to permit short-term openings or shortened seasons on the Eastern Shore when resource protection warrants.
Speaker 10 argued the committee should recommend emergency regulation to give staff and the acting commissioner discretion to act quickly when resource conditions indicate an urgent…
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