Virginia facing Lower Oyster Harvest from Public Reefs Next Season
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Daily Press] By Tamara Dietrich - February 26, 2015 -
Virginia has enjoyed huge oyster harvests for the past two seasons, taking in 504,000 bushels last year and 409,000 the year before that. The season now winding down looks healthy, too.
But don't get used to it.
The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have had a couple years of rather poor spat sets that bode a leaner harvest for the 2015-16 season that begins in the fall.
The Shellfish Management Advisory Committee is considering a range of options to curtail commercial harvest which are meeting predictable resistance from watermen...
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