Watermen in Broadband, Cell Service Deserts Struggle with State’s Mandatory Move Online
Ida Hall displays her flip phone as she talks to the VMRC board. (Credit: Pamela D’Angelo)
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission has been slowly moving fishermen, the oyster industry and now commercial crabbers to mandatory online reporting of their daily catch.
But in rural Tidewater, where many go without good cell coverage or internet, that’s a problem.
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