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SHARE This Georgia-built Carolina Skiff 238 DLV is being used in Virginia’s public hand dredge fishery on the Rappahannock River by watermen Chris Belvin and Michael Shackelford. Larry Chowning photo. Two 45-foot Chesapeake Bay wooden deadrise workboats, a Canadian Provincial 45-foot fiberglass boat and three Georgia built Carolina Skiffs constitute a small commercial fishing fleet. Partners Chris Belvin of Tappahannock, Va., and Michael Shackelford of Gloucester County, Va., own, work and maintain this small fleet of boats. “We’ve got a lot of boats between us, and we need a lot of boats,” says Belvin who, along with his partner, works from several commercial fishing licenses in Virginia’s portion of Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. ....