State Representative Chip Brown, R-Hollinger’s Island, announced his introduction of a three-bill legislative package on Monday as the state lawmaker looks to “protect, promote, and expand” Alabama’s commercial seafood industry.

Brown’s legislation—consisting of prefiled House Bills 3, 28 and 38—would put into effect several measures aimed at supporting commercial fishing, retail seafood sales and the protection of local marine waters.

The first bill included in the package, HB3, would directly support commercial fishing by exempting seafood sales made by anglers and fishermen from state sales and use taxes. It would also allow municipalities and counties to exempt such sales from local sales and use taxes as well.

Meanwhile, Brown’s other two bills look to aid the seafood industry by p

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