Menhaden Boat Controversy Ignites Social Media Frenzy - Away State Journal
The fight is back on over regulation of menhaden fishing off the Louisiana coast, with the state legislature entering the fray. Lawmakers’ proposals so far favor recreational anglers and charter ...
The Advocate: Four bills that would regulate menhaden operations off Louisiana’s coast have passed committee
Four bills offered in the State House of Representatives to limit the take of menhaden off Louisiana’s coast passed through the House Natural Resources Committee last week and likely will face an ...
Four bills that would regulate menhaden operations off Louisiana’s coast have passed committee
Menhaden, also known as mossbunker, bunker, and "the most important fish in the sea", [1] are forage fish of the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium, two genera of marine fish in the order Clupeiformes.
Menhaden support an important commercial fishery. They constitute the largest landings, by volume, along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Menhaden are harvested for use as fertilizers, animal feed, and bait for fisheries including blue crab and lobster.
Menhaden, any of several species of valuable Atlantic coastal fishes in the genus Brevoortia of the herring family (Clupeidae), utilized for oil, fish meal, and fertilizer.
Menhaden are a type of forage fish or critical prey for larger predators that depend on them to survive. Menhaden are dense in calories and nutrients, critical for species like striped bass, bluefish, osprey, whales, and dolphins’ survival.
Atlantic menhaden are common fish in estuaries and coastal waters from Nova Scotia to northern Florida. Menhaden are small, flat-bodied, fish with deeply forked tails. They have bright silver scales, and are characterized by a series of smaller dark spots behind the main, black humeral spot.
