This special issue of Resources Quarterly looks at the commercial fisheries and aquaculture of the Commonwealth of Virginia: the largest fishery on the U.S. Atlantic Coast. It features an article by Tom Murray of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, an interview with Mike Hutt, Executive Director of the Virginia Marine Products Board and profiles of two longstanding Virginian seafood companies producing delicious clams and delectable oysters: J. C. Walker Brothers and H. M. Terry.