28.2-1004 - Authority to authorize and regulate experimental oyster hatchery program. - Virginia Statutes

§ 28.2-1004. Authority to authorize and regulate experimental oyster hatcheryprogram.

The Potomac River Fisheries Commission shall have the power to make, adoptand permit such rules and regulations and to take such action as may benecessary or advisable for authorizing and regulating a pilot program forexperimental oyster hatchery seed planting, growing, and harvesting withprivate planters and public and private scientific agencies engaged insimilar work in its jurisdiction, and may set aside available barren naturaloyster rocks for this purpose and to allow dredging of same for inspection,sampling and harvesting under the supervision and control of the PotomacRiver Fisheries Commission and in cooperation with the Maryland or Virginiapublic scientific agencies, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and VirginiaInstitute of Marine Science.

The provisions of this section shall not take effect until a similar actbecomes effective in the State of Maryland, whereupon the Governor ofVirginia shall issue a proclamation declaring the provisions of this sectionto be effective.

(1974, c. 89, § 28.1-228; 1992, c. 836.)