Virginia revokes ten commercial watermen’s licenses and fishing privileges for harvesting oysters from polluted waters

January 27, 2015 Meeting of the Virginia Marine Resource Commission

REPEAT OFFENDERS: The Commission revoked ten commercial watermen’s licenses and tidal fishing privileges for their court convictions of harvesting oysters from polluted waters. However, the Commission suspended the revocations of nine of those watermen and put them on probation for a year. Any natural resources violations during that probation period will result in the automatic loss of their commercial fishing licenses and fishing privileges for up to two years