With new state dollars granted by the General Assembly by way of a budget amendment from Gov. Abigail Spanberger, scientists ...

After four years of questions and debate, two million dollars is in place to fund research into the status of a tiny fish ...

The Virginia General Assembly has approved its two-year budget with an additional USD 2 million (EUR 1.7 million) earmarked for menhaden research in the Chesapeake Bay thanks to an amendment by ...

Virginia’s final budget, passed by the General Assembly Monday, includes funding for a highly anticipated study investigating ...

With summer in full swing, Chesapeake Bay fishermen, birders and environmentalists are once again faced with the harsh reality that menhaden, the most important fish in the sea, are scarce. Even Omega ...

The osprey’s challenges deserve good science not another oversimplified blame campaign, Ocean Harvesters CEO Monty Deihl ...

Few people realize that one of Louisiana’s most valuable fisheries isn’t for shrimp, oysters, or crab—but for a small, unassuming fish that has fueled our state and local economies: the menhaden. The ...

On Feb. 16, The Baltimore Sun published an editorial urging a moratorium on menhaden fishing in the Chesapeake Bay (“Virginia and Maryland have a small fish problem“). Unfortunately, the piece ...

Over the week of July 4, 2022, people flocking to Chesapeake Bay’s Virginia coast were met at the water’s edge by hordes of ghastly visitors: hand-size silver menhaden washed up by the thousands, ...

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 ...

After four years of questions and debate, two million dollars is in place to fund research into the status of a tiny fish ...