Louisiana officials are proposing that boats fishing for menhaden must be at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore after boats spilled an estimated 850,000 of the small fish on Cameron Parish beaches ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) – Del. Tim Anderson (R-Va. 83rd District) says decades of menhaden harvesting in the Chesapeake Bay has been long enough. He’s calling what happened off Silver Beach earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local residents counted more than 300 dead redfish among the hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden lining the shore. Nearly a ...

The clock is ticking on an effort by local baymen to maintain a sustainable local fishery for Atlantic menhaden through legislation that would ban large commercial purse seine boats from gobbling up ...

State commissioners at a packed meeting in Baton Rouge on Thursday approved a proposal to ease some regulations on Louisiana's controversial menhaden fishing industry while adding additional ...

A commercial fishing boat crew pulls up a net full of menhaden off the Louisiana coast. (Photo courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant) The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to ...

A menhaden fishing boat overwhelmed by an unexpectedly big catch let loose a massive raft of dead fish off the coast of southwest Louisiana last week, sparking outrage from conservation groups and ...

Pushing commercial menhaden fishing farther off the Louisiana coast may appease anglers and conservationists, but it would come at a heavy cost to the industry, according to a new report from state ...

Two boats slide off the back of their mothership and into the Gulf’s green waters. Then the real work begins. With waves rocking them, the boats begin to separate, unspooling a net bigger than five ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAMERON, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials are ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial menhaden fishing closer to the state’s coastline, reigniting the industry’s ...