The Commission may require the purchase of licenses before each crab season begins. It may set time periods for the sale of licenses for taking crabs in order to determine the appropriateness of instituting seasonal conservation measures and may grant extensions to individual applicants when it finds exceptional circumstances exist.
Va. Code Ann. § 28.2-704
Sale of crabbing licenses
1985, c. 165, § 28.1-172.1; 1992, c. 836.
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