A recent Advocate/Times-Picayune article examined what Louisiana anglers caught in 2025 and what those numbers could suggest ...

All right, a little nature news now - small fish called menhaden play a vital ecological role as food for striped bass, seals, osprey, even whales. For years, they were disappearing along the Atlantic ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is brought to you by the Louisiana Commercial Fishing Coalition LLC. For generations, Louisiana’s menhaden fishing industry has supported small coastal communities and harvested a ...

Some fisheries managers claim that the menhaden fish stock in the Gulf of Mexico is not overfished, and the threat of overfishing does not exist. Because such findings indicate these small fish are ...

Virginia’s proposal to limit the amount of Atlantic menhaden harvested in the Chesapeake Bay won approval despite arguments that the plan is not as restrictive as it should be. In a victory for the ...

The Virginia Saltwater Sportfishing Association’s Mike Avery inaccurately claims that the Chesapeake Bay’s menhaden fishery is hurting striped bass (“Advocates call for limits of menhaden fishing in ...

REEDVILLE, Va. -- January is the off-season for fishing in Virginia, and typically Frederick Rogers and the other menhaden fishermen on the Northern Neck would be repairing their gear, taking ...

A surge in the catch of a small species of fish called menhaden off the Maine coast has helped stabilize a bait crunch that's plagued the state's lobster industry for several years. Maine's lobster ...