Concerns about menhaden depletion, damage from fish spills, unintended bycatch, and damage to habitat have long been raised by both fishermen and environmental groups, only to be told “there is ...

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In 1883, the Luce Brothers and S.S. Brown & Co. built the first menhaden processing plant at Cape Henlopen. Conveniently located near the Atlantic habitat of the menhaden, the Lewes fish plants ...

Conservationists in Virginia worry that overfishing of menhaden is harming the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. ... But the available data looks at the fish's habitat along the entire East Coast.

Atlantic menhaden weigh less than a pound and measure little more than a foot long but the small fish has big consequences ...

In Virginia's waters, the decline of a small but critically important fish is causing growing concern among conservation ...

In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the Louisiana coast, leaving the floating mass to rot in the summer sun. A few months later, another spill blanketed ...

Menhaden play a vital role in coastal ecosystems by serving as the base of the food chain for larger fish, marine mammals and seabirds. ... unintended bycatch and damage to bay habitat.

Large striped bass are being caught in the Providence River and upper Narragansett Bay, often by using Atlantic menhaden as bait. Summer flounder (fluke) are being caught throughout the region, with ...