A. The total allowable landings for menhaden specified in § 28.2-400.2 shall be allocated among the purse seine menhaden reduction sector, purse seine menhaden bait sector, and non-purse seine menhaden bait sector in proportion to each sector’s share of average landings in 2002 through 2011, and in proportion to each gear type landings within the non-purse seine bait sector during that period.

B. The Commission shall establish an Individual Transferable Quota System for any purse seine menhaden bait licensee that meets the requirements of § 28.2-400.1. The Commission shall not consider a limited entry purse seine menhaden bait licensee’s landings of menhaden for reduction purposes for any purposes under the Individual Transferable Quota System required by this subsection.

C. Any landings of menhaden by a limited entry purse seine menhaden bait licensee at a qualified menhaden processing factory, as indicated on the mandatory daily landings reports required to be submitted under § 28.2-400.5, shall be attributed to the menhaden reduction sector for all purposes under this chapter. A qualified menhaden processing factory is one located in the Commonwealth and which has processed at least 100,000 metric tons of menhaden in each of the years 2009, 2010, and 2011.

History

2013, cc. 59, 760.