Category: Menhaden

Recreational angling, boating, and conservation community disappointed that state legislative efforts to fund menhaden science in the Chesapeake Bay failed in session.

During the 2025 legislative session, Virginia lawmakers will again consider providing funding for university research into the Commonwealth’s largest fishery: Atlantic menhaden.

How lawmakers can build on recent conservation successes and deliver big wins for the hunting and fishing community.

Looking ahead at the most pressing needs for habitat, access, and our sporting traditions.

Your support helped make these conservation successes possible.

Hughes has been fortunate enough to fish across America, from salmon rivers to the deep ocean for tuna. These experiences have helped shape his conservation ethic, one that makes him proud to Step Into...

As 2024 wraps up, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is excited to share this year’s key achievements in forage fish conservation along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, helping protect menhaden and herring that are...

An all-purpose outdoors professional since 1994, Capt. Chris Dollar has three decades’ experience as an outdoors professional on the Chesapeake Bay who has held a fishing guide license and a U.S. Coast Guard Master’s...

Paul Dixon is a saltwater fly fishing guide who offers fly fishing for striped bass and bluefish off Montauk, N.Y., and for bonefish, permit, and tarpon in the Florida Keys. He is co-founder and...

Fully 1 million fewer dead pogies, or menhaden, were spilled in the 2024 season compared to the annual average after near-shore, half-mile-wide buffers were created by the state to prevent industrial harvest of these...