“A singular occurrence excited the people of Lewes,” the Smyrna Times reported on Nov. 18, 1874, “and caused them to leave their cottages by the sea and even their churches and go into the fishing ...

Sportfishing groups and environmentalists are calling for a partial moratorium on Virginia’s menhaden reduction fishery, citing troubling declines of certain bird and fish species that feed on them. A ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial menhaden fishing closer to the state’s coastline, reigniting the industry’s ...

Sharks are treating New York waters like a restaurant — and the state government is the maître d’. Great whites and other sharks have been coming close to Long Island beaches this year to feast on a ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY (WAVY) – The menhaden fishing operation of Omega Protein continues to face opposition. Omega hauls in tons of the oil-rich fish each day for processing into fish oil, additives and ...

Along Louisiana’s working coastlines, a small silver fish powers a vast network of food, health, and agriculture. Known as menhaden, sometimes called pogies, this humble species forms the backbone of ...

Recent news about Omega Protein spilling 400,000 “presumably dead” menhaden fish from torn nets, the latest in the company’s 13 fish spills in Virginia since 2018, is an important reminder of the need ...

Under the 2020 ERP definitions, Atlantic menhaden are not overfished and overfishing is not occurring. For 2023, fecundity is on the order of 1.2 quadrillion eggs (above the ERP fecundity threshold ...

A panel of fisheries regulators took a first step Monday that could lead to a freeze on catching menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay. The menhaden panel of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission ...

The captain of a menhaden ship was cited for fishing within a restricted buffer zone off Terrebonne Parish near Vermillion Bay early this month, the first such citation under new rules. According to ...

Virginia is cutting this year’s Chesapeake Bay menhaden catch by more than 80% from last year’s landings in order to end a federal moratorium. Federal fisheries officials said they’d bar fishing for ...