AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON CHESAPEAKE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES

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In determining whether there was good cause for the failure to produce or plant oysters, clams, or cultch, in addition to other factors, the Commission shall consider the prevalence of the diseases MSX and Dermo, and whether the oyster-planting ground has traditionally produced commercial quantities of oysters or clams.