A menhaden pulled from the Chesapeake Bay in the area of Jordan Point Marina. (Charlie Paullin / Virginia Mercury) Recreational fishers in Virginia are asking legislators to take action on managing ...

TRENTON – The Assembly passed bills involving licenses for timeshare salespersons, school instruction on responsible use of social media, private sponsorship of toll road rest areas, and menhaden ...

I think that most people familiar with the menhaden issue know that the state secretary of commerce has placed a moratorium on fishing for the menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay to begin effective June 17 ...

A judge in Cambridge has upheld Maryland’s curbs on catching menhaden, rejecting claims by a pair of watermen that the restrictions were unconstitutional. Following a day-long hearing Wednesday in ...

With a tough letter accusing a Canadian-owned firm of stealing Virginia fish, Gov. Ralph Northam asked for a federal freeze on catching menhaden. Northam said the freeze was needed because ...

A panel of fisheries regulators took a first step Monday that could lead to a freeze on catching menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay. The menhaden panel of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission ...