The Menhaden Fisheries Coalition sees a newly funded Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS) project to produce a research roadmap for Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay as a long-overdue…
The State of Maryland Survey has for two years in a row identified the abundance of juvenile menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay at its highest level since 1990. The Maryland…
A series of harassment incidents has prompted the state of Virginia to introduce legislation designed to protect commercial watermen from interference. During 2023 there were three instances of harassment of…
The latest Atlantic menhaden stock assessment accepted by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has concluded that Atlantic menhaden is healthy, not overfished, and that overfishing is not occurring.…
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