Section 10. Purpose

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This chapter promotes conservation of the blue crab resource, especially female crabs that constitute mostly all of the crab dredge harvest, with many of those female crabs yet to produce their initial spawn. The provisions in this chapter are in response to the reduced abundance of the blue crab resource and its overexploitation, especially of female crabs.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 24, Issue 19, eff. April 30, 2008; amended, Virginia Register Volume 26, Issue 21, eff. June 1, 2010.

Statutory Authority

§ 28.2-201 of the Code of Virginia.

                    
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