Editorial: Menhaden study should provide data needed for bay management

A menhaden study is long overdue, and both sides of the debate are right to celebrate this important step by the commonwealth ...
WVTF

Virginia budget funds long-awaited research on menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay

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

After years of effort, Chesapeake Bay-specific menhaden population study gets funding

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

Future of Menhaden fishing at risk if company doesn’t come into compliance, feds say

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The U.S. Department of Commerce will stop the fishing of Menhaden off of Virginia’s coast by next summer if a company accused of overfishing the species last year doesn’t ...
WYDaily

Funding approved for study of menhaden population in the Chesapeake Bay

A provision in the two-year budget approved by lawmakers on June 29 will fund a state study on menhaden, small forage fish in ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Opinion: Fish spills renew concerns about menhaden management

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 ...