Are we risking the health of the bay’s ecosystem and economy so that a Canadian company can make higher profits? By allowing ...

A critical fish species in the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic menhaden, could be declining rapidly or its numbers could be growing. There is no data on Atlantic menhaden populations in the Bay ...

Atlantic menhaden weigh less than a pound and measure little more than a foot long but the small fish has big consequences for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. A bill introduced in the Virginia ...

(WFXR) — A third effort in the 2025 Virginia General Assembly session to provide funding for a study of Atlantic menhaden numbers in Virginia’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay has been killed.

A study on the health of the Chesapeake Bay's menhaden population has been cut out of the state budget. While Virginia Department of Transportation crews cleared a lot of snow from the interstates ...

First, there is no scientific evidence that menhaden populations are declining in the Chesapeake Bay. The article states, "New York's decision to implement stricter menhaden protections in 2020 ...