MENHADEN MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Members of the MMAC are selected as follows per the Code of Virginia:

ยง 28.2-208.2. Menhaden Management Advisory Committee established.

The Commissioner shall establish a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee (the Committee) to provide guidance to the Commission on the sustainable management of the menhaden resource and harvest of the bait and reduction fisheries in the waters of the Commonwealth, including the Chesapeake Bay. The Committee shall consist of not more than 12 nonlegislative citizen members who shall be residents of the Commonwealth with knowledge of the menhaden resource, to be appointed by the Commissioner, including one representative of the menhaden reduction fishery, one representative of the menhaden bait fishery, one representative of a labor organization involved in the menhaden fishery, one recreational angler, one member of a Virginia-based conservation organization, one representative of the sportfishing industry, and the Virginia appointee to the Atlantic Menhaden Technical Committee of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.

 
CHAIRMAN CITY SEAT
Dr. Rob Latour Gloucester Pt At-large
COMMITTEE MEMBERS    
Monty Diehl Reedville Reduction
AJ Erskine Kinsale Bait
Craig Freeman York Recreational Angler
Daniel Knott Gloucester At-Large
Mike Leonard Fredericksburg Sportfishing Industry
Shanna Madsen Hampton ASMFC TC
Chris Moore Virginia Beach Conservation
Ken Pinkard Reedville Labor
Ken Schultz Accomac At-Large
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