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1996 SESSION
SB 86 Protection of the blue crab.
Introduced by: Warren E. Barry | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Protection of the blue crab. Establishes a number of protective measures to reduce fishing pressure on the blue crab and to protect female crabs showing eggs including: (i) a prohibition on the taking or possession of sponge crabs with an egg mass of brown to black coloration (late stage egg mass); (ii) a limitation of the number of hard crab pot and peeler pot licenses to the number existing on November 27, 1995, coupled with requirements that the Virginia Marine Resources Commission develop an allocation system for licenses and written criteria for hardship exemptions; (iii) capping at 300 the number of hard crab pots that may be fished under a license while allowing 500 pots to be fished in the Bay north of Sting Ray Point; (iv) a requirement that the Virginia Marine Resources Commission establish a buoy marking system to track the number of pots used by each licensee; and (v) a requirement that crab traps and crab pounds and related gear be removed from the water no later that October 31 of each year.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/96 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 964917607 pdf
- 02/05/96 Senate: Committee substitute printed 960843607-S1 pdf
HISTORY
- 01/10/96 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 964917607
- 01/10/96 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/05/96 Senate: Reported from A. C. & N. R. w/sub. (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/05/96 Senate: Committee substitute printed 960843607-S1
- 02/06/96 Senate: Const. reading disp.(38-Y 0-N), passed by for the day
- 02/06/96 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/96 Senate: Read second time
- 02/07/96 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/07/96 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 960843607-S1
- 02/07/96 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 960843607-S1
- 02/08/96 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N)
- 02/08/96 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (25-Y 15-N)
- 02/08/96 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/09/96 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/96 House: Read first time
- 02/10/96 House: Referred to Committee on Chesapeake and Its Tributaries
- 02/22/96 House: Stricken from docket by C. I. T. (11-Y 0-N)