In the debate over the future of the Atlantic menhaden fishery, working families are being pushed to the margins. The fishermen, plant workers and coastal community members who have sustained this ...

Conversely, the Atlantic menhaden fishery has repeatedly been found to be healthy and sustainably managed. The most recent stock assessment by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in ...

Atlantic menhaden weigh less than a pound and measure little more than a foot long but the small fish has big consequences for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. A bill introduced in the Virginia ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — A budget amendment will be considered by the Virginia General Assembly to fund a three year study of Atlantic menhaden in Virginia’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay.

(2024) study did not demonstrate a biologically significant change in the proportion of menhaden in the osprey ... including the banning of DDT, the Atlantic Coast osprey population increased ...

Net tears and fish spills have left thousands of pounds of menhaden and red drum to rot on Virginia beaches. Virginia is the only state along the Atlantic coast to allow industrial fishing for ...

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / May 2, 2025 / The six shop stewards representing union fishermen members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 are calling on the Atlantic States ...