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Menhaden play a vital role in marine ecosystems, serving as a key food source for whales, dolphins, birds, and popular game fish. However, industrial-scale fishing removes hundreds of millions of menhaden annually from the Atlantic Ocean, potentially impacting wildlife, recreational fishing, and ecotourism.

This petition asks the Biden administration to enact emergency measures to stop industrial-scale fishing in the New York/New Jersey Bight.

#Menhaden #Petition

sites.google.com/view/menhaden

sites.google.comHomeMenhaden play a vital role in marine ecosystems, serving as a key food source for whales, dolphins, birds, and popular game fish. However, industrial-scale fishing removes hundreds of millions of menhaden annually from the Atlantic Ocean, potentially impacting wildlife, recreational fishing, and

Thanks for the interest @isposdef. You are either going to love or hate my chapter on ‘Tittlebats, Garvies, and Five-fingers’! Or to translate this into North species, the application of such as the and , in their raw state, on as manure. on this side of the North littoral did the same. Tittlebat = stickleback (exploited in Newfoundland); Garvy = Sprat; Five-fingers = Starfish.

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Nat'l Coalition for Marine Conservation (#NCMC) 2007:
Where Have All the Chesapeake Bay's Menhaden Gone?

"...either menhaden have been overfished or environmental conditions are deteriorating. Or, most likely, both.”

Warming coastal waters is a possible explanation for a northward shift in a number of fish stocks in recent years, from lobster to tuna.

#Menhaden population lost its basic ecological, economic and social functions.

web.archive.org/web/2008050906

web.archive.orgNCMC Action Item - Save the Stripers campaign update, striped bass conservation and menhaden conservation

Quintana Beach, Brazoria County, #Texas, #USA

When water temperature rises above 70°F (21°C) it becomes hard for #Menhaden to receive enough oxygen to survive.

fox26houston.com/news/hundreds

Lahtimenhaden (Brevoortia patronus) kuuluu jokisillien heimoon (Alosidae). Se syö planktonia (on ns "forage fish") ja sillä on keskeinen asema ravintoketjussa.
Jotkut kutsuvat sitä merien tärkeimmäksi kalaksi.

FOX 26 HoustonHundreds of Menhaden fish die at Quintana Beach County ParkBy Ronnie Marley