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Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is holding industry accountable over harvest limits for
menhaden, and requiring circle hooks in angling for striped bass. With your help, we spoke up this …
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… place.” That’s essentially what Omega Protein is saying about its harvest of Atlantic
menhaden, a vital forage fish for the Hudson River Estuary and the entire East Coast. Omega …
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… seines,” the enormous nets being used by industrial fishing operations, to harvest Atlantic
menhaden (also known as “bunker”) in New York State waters. The Assembly passed the measure on …
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… driving the effort to win the Marine Stewardship Council’s sustainability label for the Atlantic
menhaden fishery. Riverkeeper and our allies are trying to prevent this, given the vital role of …
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… contacted John Waldman from CUNY Queens, migratory fish expert. “It’s a school of
menhaden filter feeding.” I asked if he had seen or heard of them on Newtown Creek before….. …
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… prey struggling in turbulent waters. Discrete contingents of striped bass will harass schools of
menhaden in coastal waters, and others will settle around rips or current edges, waiting in ambush …
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… frequent our coastal marine waters seeking to exploit rebounding and bountiful populations of
menhaden, their primary prey. Within the Hudson’s reaches, fast-growing striped bass juveniles …
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