Attention seafood processors: If you want to stay in business, grab your checkbook.
That’s the message from the state Senate, which approved a bill requiring Virginia’s approximately 200 processors of shellfish and crabs to pay $600 each for an annual operating license.
The bill, which awaits action in the House, is expected to generate $120,000. The money combined with additional charges on leasing state-owned water bottom and pollution discharge permit applications would fill a projected $150,150 budget gap, said Robert Croonenberghs, director of the state Shellfish Sanitation Division.
The bill, which awaits action in the House, is expected to generate $120,000. The money combined with additional charges on leasing state-owned water bottom and pollution discharge permit applications would fill a projected $150,150 budget gap, said Robert Croonenberghs, director of the state Shellfish Sanitation Division.
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